Comment: My ancestry? Well, let's see.  Nobody from Texas, that's the main thing.  Not even anybody from the South.  Mostly hard-luck Germans, drunk Irish (this is not ethnic stereotyping but factual; I had a grandfather-by-marriage who was born in Ireland and who died in a house fire he started when drunk to keep himself warm), a lone Scotsman, and a line of Quinault Indian women of whom I know only missionaries' names and their dates of death.  The last in that line was my beloved grandmother, the greatest storyteller since Scheherazade.  There may have once been slaves held in that branch of the family.  The Salishan-language peoples of Nootka were slaveholders when first contacted by Europeans in the 18th century.  It's not impossible their poorer cousins to the south were also.

You will not understand history unless you try to understand actors as they understood themselves.  Slavery was wrong: but nobody knew how to end it.  That's why there was a war in which as many as 800,000 died.