you're white from mississippi mind telling us how many black people were the legal property of your family "back in the day" https://twitter.com/yelyahwilliams/status/1331308246754332678
yeah, wild...but niggas wanna talk about how indentured servitude was ~almost as bad~ & shit... https://twitter.com/_gensecDishonor/status/1331604712295161861
not about to screenshot all the entries, but given the above it shouldn't be surprising that the 1850 slave schedules are full of black people whose owners are listed as hamric[k] in multiple states.
recap: hayley williams uses Black english in a tweet (screen 1), gets called out for it, deletes the tweet & her defense of it where she does it again (2). thread provides evidence her ancestors owned legal slaves, focusing on an enslaved child named "truelove" or "freelove" (3).
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