It's common sense. People with slaves were the people with the money for it Most of the people around here come from families that were poor. They didn't have slaves, they WERE the slaves. Color didn't matter. My great grandparents on both sides worked on the railroad.

As a matter of fact, after some digging, i have found that, oddly, both sets of great grandparents lived in the same neighborhood (within a few blocks of each other.) Wild, right? Absolutely true though.