The owner's brother-in-law disapproved and forged a document saying they were fugitive slaves and tried to claim ownership using the legal system in Ohio (a non-slave state), but unsurprisingly failed. These cousins learned that the reason the Polly children were auctioned off was due to their owner's debts and also that the owner's wife wanted them out.
JOHN LEGEND THIS TIME PIANO MUSESCORE PDF
(2012) episode in question, two of John Legend's cousins (descendants of Peyton Polly) filed a court case to set the record straight. Download and print in PDF or MIDI free sheet music for All Of Me by John Legend arranged by Kierini for Piano, Piano (Piano Duo). The children enslaved in Kentucky remained enslaved until the end of the Civil War, but those in Virginia were freed.įollowing the airing of the Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Eight months after the kidnapping, Peyton went to the authorities and the case went to the Governor, who sent investigators into Kentucky and Virginia to get the children. Some of the children remained enslaved in Kentucky while others were enslaved in Virginia.
In June 1850, some men from Kentucky came into Ohio, assaulted Peyton and took the Polly children away. They moved from Kentucky (a slave state) to Ohio, where they could be free. Several years later, seven of Peyton's other children were put up for auction and his brother Douglas Polly bought them. In 1847, he, his brother and son were set free by their master. One of his ancestors was named Peyton Polly, who was born a slave in 1797. (2012), John found out some very interesting things about one of his ancestors. On the TV show, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
0 kommentar(er)
