This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Buford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SeB.2ACE/730.1.1.3.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My e-mail address has changed since I posted my last e-mail address over 6 or 7 years ago, my present address is [email protected] I am the desendent of ex-slaves with roots in Giles County from District 12 of Pulaski, Tennessee. My GG Grandfather and GG Grandmother were part of the 1870 Giles County Census: Martin Buford and Polina (Pauline) Taylor-Buford had 7children in the 1870 census. Pauline was born in Pulaski and Martin was born in Mississippi. Martin had remarried by the 1880 Giles County Census and he moved to Concordia, Bolivar County, Mississippi. He and his new wife Lucinda were recorded on the 1880 Bolivar County Census. Martin and his Giles County family were listed as people of mixed races (mulatto). There were many people of color with the surname of Buford that were born in Giles Country, District 12, in Pulaski, that were ex-slaves and I suppose that Martin had blood relatives amongst them. Maybe an older brother who went by the name of Green Buford, who also moved to Concordia, Mississippi and was recorded on the 1880 census from Bolivar County. Regardless of how brutal or how wrong slavery was, you have to admit that it was institutionalized and lasted over 400 years, so to blame any one generation or any part of one society is not the problem. How do you acknowledge such inhumanity to man and not blame the institutions that allowed it to thrive. My GG Grandfather was a person of mixed races -- and he was a slave, I still don't understand how slave owners could enslave themselves, let alone justify slavery of any human being. My decendence could very well be related to the two Buford brothers who were part of the founding fathers of Giles County Tennessee?