Whew. Looks like I panicked. On further research I am not born of the slave-trading branch of my Huguenot family.
I don’t know what the patriarch Balthazar did, but only one of his great-grandchildren took the slave-trading path. In the image above I put a red mark by the Wikipedia-tagged evil Bristol branch, while the cousin from whence came my non-notable branch has a green mark.
I am so very relieved. I have enough shame without inheriting it from my family.
2 responses to “Oh Thank God, Not Descended from a Slave Trader”
Congratulations! (also: being descended from one of the three traditional wise men: nice)(yes, yes, sure, you’re not that old and neither is your family tree, but it’s still amusing to me)
KC – I was wondering why his name sounded familiar!