I've seen you pull this schit time and again; trying to rewrite people's familial history of which you haven't a clue.
You want to see the proof? Hop on your wee bike and go find it. It's there, and in publicly accessible places.
Let us speak plainly.
The real problem is, when asked to put up or shut up on this specific issue you got nothing.
Truth is important, and the people back them spoke it and wrote it as they knew it. Much as we might fervently wish people back then lived in our same reality, it weren't so.
On the 4th I'll be at the Alamo dressed out 1836. Travis of course famously brung his slave Joe and Bowie among other things had previously tried to make his fortune buying, selling and illegally smuggling them. Crockett AFAIK was largely silent on the topic tho his principled stance against Indian Removal whatever the cost to his career is but one of the things that makes him so admirable.
ALL of these guys were justly respected by those who knew them as good and honorable men regardless of their own degree of involvement in what to us today was a morally reprehensible institution, an actual atrocity.
Its like Noah Smithwick (who, tho pro-Union, owned two slaves in 1861) said; times were different back then.
As for quoting it for you; F'k that. Earn it and learn it.
Aye, there's the rub.... you yourself ain't ever hardly looked at all, else you'd be all over it <shrug>
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