Some months ago, a few years after my father's death, while going through some old papers in boxes, we made a startling discovery: that our great-great grandfather, Arthur Thome, was a slave-owner and the first Kentuckian to free his ( approximately fifteen) slaves, between 1832 and 1838, and that his oldest son, our great uncle, James Armstrong Thome, was a very prominent and influential abolitionist, author of Emancipation In the West Indies, a book which profoundly influenced the American abolition movement toward immediate rather than gradual freeing of slaves, and advisor to Abraham Lincoln on the writing of the Emancipation Proclamation. We found copies of the manumission papers freeing Arthur's slaves (the originals are held in the Oberlin College Special Collections Library.) We learned that Arthur lost his business and he and his family were driven at gunpoint from their elegant home in Augusta, Kentucky by angry pro-slavery mobs, and had to flee to another state to start over when he was almost 70 years old. This information was new and startling; we had never heard any reference to this part of our heritage during my father's lifetime. It remains a mystery why my father never mentioned it.
I have felt so many reactions--shame, and guilt at knowing that my own ancestor was a slaveholder, had owned human beings as "property" and benefited from their labor, no matter how kindly he is said to have treated them. Pride that he was willing to risk, and lose, his wealth, position, home and friends, because he came to see that emancipating them was the right thing to do. And, pride that his son was a courageous and committed abolitionist who spoke out and wrote against the evils of slavery at every opportunity, and was responsible for persuading his own father to free his slaves. Sadness and concern as I look at the names of the people he set "free," and I wonder what became of them, how they survived, whether they were able to leave the area, given the intense hostility toward freed people that existed among the dominant slave -owner class in those times. Their deprivation, their sacrifices and labor, contributed greatly to my great-great grandfather's prosperity and way of life: his flour mill business, the ferry he established to cross the Ohio River, and the elegant mansion where he and his family lived until they had to leave.
Not long after these discoveries about our own family history, I began to hear of the reparations movement, and then found CURE via the internet. I then felt that there was a place where I, as a white person, could participate, in some small way, in creating a remedy for an evil which has been a toxic and pervasive force in the entire world and especially perpetuated in this country, for centuries. It has felt very personal, since discovering that my ancestors were both slave-owners and abolitionists. Since then, as I learn more about the history, philosophy, research and scholarship behind the reparations movement, it makes even more sense, and I feel all the more impatient with the resistance expressed toward it by some.
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