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JTrainDavis said:
That's actually a long ways, assuming before that was slavery times....really cool.
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Yeah that was. Captain Mckissack of the Confederate Army father came over from North Carolina to Robertson County Tn around 1820. He bought slaves my ancestors in Cross Plains where the auction block still stands today. He kept his slaves together. And those slaves mingled with the other slaves from the neighboring Randolf farm. After the war they became a small community near by called Oregon in which my great great great great grandfather had 60 acres of farm land.
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Coach Grizz said:
Yeah that was. Captain Mckissack of the Confederate Army father came over from North Carolina to Robertson County Tn around 1820. He bought slaves my ancestors in Cross Plains where the auction block still stands today. He kept his slaves together. And those slaves mingled with the other slaves from the neighboring Randolf farm. After the war they became a small community near by called Oregon in which my great great great great grandfather had 60 acres of farm land.
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That's a great story, you should look more into it. It'd be hard to follow, but you might be able to get farther back
 
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JTrainDavis said:
That's a great story, you should look more into it. It'd be hard to follow, but you might be able to get farther back
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My father has it all wrote down in a book. Slave records etc. Yeah it be hard to go back any further than what he found.
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JTrainDavis said:
I'm a Yankee...But Campbell County was named after Wm Campbell, who fought at Kings Mountain.

Welcome aboard, anyhow
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Furguson of the British army said he would never leave that mountain and by god he was right they buried him up there!!
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Coach Grizz said:
Furguson of the British army said he would never leave that mountain and by god he was right they buried him up there!!
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Jack Sevier put that bastard in his place.

And when William Washington's Cavalry rode down and hacked the British down at the Cowpens, 30% of them were black. Nobody mentions that, or that 40% of our army at Saratoga was Black. It doesn't make a good story, i guess
 
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JTrainDavis said:
Shame, all the free black men who fought in the revolution, how that chapter got erased.
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Yeah that is a shame. A guy I work with said your own people sold y'all into slavery not us. I told him that was true but the slave trade was going on inside of Africa way before the European countries came into play. It was big between the Arabs and other Afican nations. Black men were also hired as fighting slaves centuries ago for Egypt, Carthaginians, and other nations. It's a shame that all people know is that we were once slaves and now we make rap music....
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JTrainDavis said:
Jack Sevier put that bastard in his place.

And when William Washington's Cavalry rode down and hacked the British down at the Cowpens, 30% of them were black. Nobody mentions that, or that 40% of our army at Saratoga was Black. It doesn't make a good story, i guess
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Wow!! The only black man that gets mentioned is Benjamin Baniker.
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Coach Grizz said:
Wow!! The only black man that gets mentioned is Benjamin Baniker.
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The Rhode Island Line was about 40% black, they didn't have enough white folks lol. By the time things came to a head at Yorktown, much of the Connecticut and Massachusetts Line was black as well.
 
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