The historian who delivered the news to Alex explained that he would have received preferential treatment, allowing him to prosper due to his light skin.
They still had to dress it up with this grossly misleading statement that implies her ancestor owned slaves because he was 'just white enough'.
Absolutely, you can find Black slaveowners in America who were super black. They succeeded in their plantation and slaving businesses on their own merits, not because anyone gave them preferential treatment.
Don Cheadle also found out Indians owned his family. Watching him go from excited to blame whitey to what the fuck in a matter of 12 seconds was priceless. You could see the cognitive dissonance break his brain.
Production is kind of a crapshoot. They pick UK celebrities and go digging through old records about their ancestors. The problem is that they never know what they're going to find. They have had to abandon episodes in cases where they have dug through centuries worth of records and found... absolutely nothing even remotely noteworthy or interesting; Just generation after generation after generation of thoroughly uneventful low status lives.
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They still had to dress it up with this grossly misleading statement that implies her ancestor owned slaves because he was 'just white enough'.
It's utter fucking bollocks.
Absolutely, you can find Black slaveowners in America who were super black. They succeeded in their plantation and slaving businesses on their own merits, not because anyone gave them preferential treatment.
If they would crack open a book they would see that every race has been slaves and slave owners. Slavery is as old as prostitution
Sometimes it was the same thing.
Don Cheadle also found out Indians owned his family. Watching him go from excited to blame whitey to what the fuck in a matter of 12 seconds was priceless. You could see the cognitive dissonance break his brain.
Production is kind of a crapshoot. They pick UK celebrities and go digging through old records about their ancestors. The problem is that they never know what they're going to find. They have had to abandon episodes in cases where they have dug through centuries worth of records and found... absolutely nothing even remotely noteworthy or interesting; Just generation after generation after generation of thoroughly uneventful low status lives.