• ClassIsOver [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    From the Wikipedia article:

    Like many families of the era, Reconstruction was an economically difficult time for the late governor’s family in Jackson County, Florida.

    Tough shit, they didn’t have the free labor of enslaved people. Rest in piss.