Pedigree is important. Pedigree is the authentic, bona fidis, a “license” to speak on history in this land, not as a recent observer, but someone whose family has been here since 12,000 B.C., in what is now Opelousas, Louisiana. Before Opelousas Post in 1764, before St. Landry's Parish, and long before Europeans from France arrived my family was here, not in Africa. Attakapas (Indians) Militia, Corp. (Jean)Baptiste Guillory, FREE Mulatto.(1790 census) Mobile Militia, Jean-Baptist Guillory (Half-Uncle, White). Both Guillory's have the same father, my Great Grandfather, same names and different mothers, manifestly. Both fought at the Battle of Baton Rouge with Galvez (Spanish) in the American Revolution against the British. Note, that at this time “Mobile” was in Louisiana's territorial jurisdiction, and home to Massacre Island in Mobile Bay.
Where exactly, on the land, is the Attakapas (Ishak) Guillory, (Birotte, Fuselier) family from in North America? Montreal, Massacre Island, Bayou Teche, Bayou Fuselier, Bayou Mallet, Opelousas Prairie, Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
What Language did and do they speak? French-French 'Creole,' exclusively in the home from 1690 until 1960s, (Chahta)Spanish, Latin (church)and English. Sorry no “African” dialects.
I apologize upfront because I realize many of the mind washed, public school educated will find some sort of offense in forthcoming musings that will be found here. Especially those with evil intent, who support the racial lies, agreed upon, that has been leveled against my family and the pre-colonials of the states united. One such lie exposed:
“Race! Do not speak to us of race - we care nothing for breed or color. What we contend for is, that slavery whether black or white, is a normal, a proper institution in society. The blood of orators, generals, statesmen, even the President of the Republic runs in the veins of men who are bought and sold like horses and mules. Slavery, white or black, is right and necessary.”
George Fitzhugh.
Sociology for the South or The Failure of Free Society p.225 (1854)
Who were the first slaves in the colonies of North America? White Europeans and American Negro Indians.
Do people need a pedigree?