All very true, but it went deeper. There was a saying in the antebellum period: The wife of a slave owner knows the heritage of all the 'mixed-race' children o

All very true, but it went deeper. There was a saying in the antebellum period: The wife of a slave owner knows the heritage of all the 'mixed-race' children on every plantation but her own. The southern 'good ol boys', not just the owners, had done many unspeakable things to enslaved people.