Wealthy Southern family fortunes rested on unacknowledged enslaved labor

Evidence

What remained unsaid was how that fortune was accumulated. I kept thinking of my ancestors toiling on that land, stolen from their own, made to work for their indentured keep. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 490

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• XREF: connects to: Southern Baptist Seminary was built almost entirely on slave-labor wealth — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 106