Updated Slave Records, More Slaves, More Bad News for Affleck, PBS and Scoundral Henry Gates, Ben Affleck Family Owned 25 Negro Slaves in Georgia? Slavery Negro Slavery Ben Affleck Henry Louis Gates, Jr PBS Barack Obama Eric Holder Jesse Jackson Al Sharpton PBS Finding Your Roots Fraud Scam Liberal Progressive Distortion Distraction White House Negro African Slaves NAACP

Affleck Slave Update; More and More Negro Slaves surround the heritage of superstar Ben Affleck.  

25 Negro Slaves, Georgia, Ben Affleck's family tree is a lot bigger than some thought; 
Ben Affleck’s slave-owning great-grandfather would have owned Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the so-called connected host and producer of Finding Your Roots. 

Now we know that Henry Gates went to the White Power Structure and asked and informed that a superstar-megastar Ben Affleck wants something; “edit out something about one of his ancestors – the fact that he owned slaves.”  A preliminary search of publicly available records indicates that Benjamin L. Cole may have been Affleck’s great-great-great grandfather. Born in Georgia around 1816, Cole, who did not own slaves in 1840, according to the 1840 U.S. Census, owned 25 slaves ten years later, according to the 1850 U.S. Census Slave Schedules.

VOICE OVER: THIS MAN WAS BEN’S THIRD GREAT GRANDFATHER, BENJAMIN COLE, AND HE WAS LIVING IN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA AT THE TIME.

COLE WAS ONE OF SAVANNAH’S MOST PROMINENT CITIZENS—A WEATLHY LAND OWNER AND THE SHERIFF OF THE ENTIRE COUNTY.

AFFLECK: That’s amazing. I got a…we have a house in Savannah.

GATES: Really?

AFFLECK: Yeah.

GATES: Did it ever occur to you that you had deep roots there?

AFFLECK: No, it didn’t. It didn’t at all. I had no idea I had any southern roots at all, so this is remarkable.

COLE OWNED A LARGE FARM IN GEORGIA AT A TIME WHEN SLAVE LABOR HAD MADE THE STATE THE CENTER OF THE SOUTH’S COTTON KINGDOM.

WE WANTED TO SEE IF WE COULD LEARN HOW BEN’S ANCESTOR FELT ABOUT THIS PECULIAR INSTITUTION.

AND FOR THAT, WE STARTED WITH THE 1850 CENSUS.

GATES: This is the slave schedule of the 1850 Census. In 1850, they would list the owner of slaves in a separate Census.

AFFLECK: There’s Benjamin Cole, owned 25 slaves.

GATES: Your third great-grandfather owned 25 slaves. He was a slave owner.

THESE HOLDINGS PUT BENJAMIN COLE AMONG THE SOUTHERN ELITE.

ONLY ABOUT 10% OF ALL SLAVE HOLDERS OWNED 20 SLAVES OR MORE.

AFFLECK: God. It gives me kind of a sagging feeling to see, uh, a biological relationship to that. But, you know, there it is, part of our history

This makes it very clear that the program in itself is a fraud as it deletes the real history of real people which makes the entire program B.S. fiction.  

PBS has clearly been caught with their pants down just like Ben Affleck's great-grandfather did with his slaves. It seems that Ben Affleck is afraid of the truth about slavery in America when it includes his own family tree. 

The Affleck Negro slave owning, slave holding, slave breeding family made a lot of money because of the Negro slaves as Ben Affleck ducks for cover as a true blue Obama progressive. 

With enough money and power the White Power Structure can truly hide that their power came from original slave holdings and slave labor.  Henry Gates knows that the base of White Wealth, at least in some portion, comes from slavery but he decided to change history and not rock the history boat.  It was only a little White lie, right?

The Affleck slave wealth did not evaporate so we can assume that slave holding wealth emerges at some point in the Ben Affleck current holdings?   

Maybe this is what Affleck wants secret?  

Did the Afflect family own one or a hundred slaves?  What happened to the slaves and did dear old grandpa fight for the South, killing off those damn Yankees?  

Many Democratic Progressive Socialists don't like talking about true history because Democrats did everything possible to keep slaves all the way through 1964 when they decided the black man could be used as another type of tool, a political tool.  

LBJ make it clear that the N..... (black man) would vote Democratic for 200 years so the slavery continues.  The brain child Henry Gates Jr. knows the truth but he plays the game as being a top Negro is not a bad gig in White America.  

Shading the truth or hiding the truth is called a lie so the PBS show is a lie and was produced and directed by a man that decides what people should know, about some hero's.   

Gates has the Barack Obama and Eric Holder philosophy that we're black and your great-grandparents owned slaves so pay us and pay us a lot. 

Ben Affleck is not the problem but the Negro Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been uncovered as a total fraud or is there more to the story?  The thought of Gates hiding the truth about Negro slavery is a total disgrace on him and the black populations.  Wait until we get more emails, maybe even Hillary Clinton's some day and we'll all keep learning the actual truth about our so-called leaders. 

This is how millions of African Negroes came to America even before America was born as a nation by radical extremist Negro Kings turning the other way as White men loaded the slave ships and profited from the black man trade.

You see, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and PBS sold the real history of Ben Affleck to protect the fake reality of the White Affleck family which has a wealth foundation in slavery we could assume because we still don't know the truth, we know they lied or kept secrets. 

So it's o.k. to trot around in fancy cars, eat one hundred dollar steaks, travel the world, be important, as long as people never find out the truth because Henry Louis Gates Jr. and PBS sold every African American down the river, for cash. 

PBS, the government subsidized disgrace is another example of taxpayers funding fraud and deception.  Remember, without Wiki Leaks you would have never known the truth, you have already been defrauded and the Ben Affleck and Henry Gates conspiracy reaped the cash profits, influence and power.

The entire reason to own a slave is to create a cash income and overall wealth from others.  To secure wealth, influence and secrets Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and PBS who bank rolled the scam became the liars and the deep-seated racists by hiding the truth.  

Ben Affleck should be ashamed but he should also remember he did nothing wrong until he asked for a cover up of the slave story. White people owned slaves.  Muslims owned slaves and the liars keep their secrets. 

The Negro Henry Louis Gates, Jr. decided;  “In the case of Mr. Affleck – we focused on what we felt were the most interesting aspects of his ancestry.” 

In other words the owning of slaves was simply not that important and of course Ben Affleck asked him to keep the secret or the truth about his family history a total secret. With the leaking of the emails, we can guess the secret was important to millions of people.  

Ben Affleck had nothing to do with slavery.  Henry Gates on the other hand promotes everything black including beer with the president and a White cop.

Without Wiki Leaks Ben Affleck would be another pure White Democratic Progressive Socialist supporting the Negro Barack Hussein Obama, Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Eric Holder, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton etc.  knowing that his great-grandfather would have had all of them working the fields, cooking the food, chopping the wood and taking care of a little White Privileged White Child boy, which could of been named Ben.

Update: Affleck has confirmed his ancestor’s name.

One likely suspect for the slaveholding ancestor Ben Affleck wants to disown is Benjamin L. Cole of Savannah, Georgia. In 1850, Benjamin L. Cole owned 25 slaves, according to the Chatham County, Georgia Schedule of Slaves enumerated in the 1850 United States Census.

Breitbart News has asked Mr. Affleck’s publicists at the Sunshine Sachs agency to confirm or deny this possibility, but has not received a response.

Breitbart News has also asked Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, the producer of the PBS Series “Finding Your Roots,” to confirm or deny that Benjamin L. Cole is Affleck’s slaveholding ancestor.

Professor Gates has not responded to our inquiry.

The New York Post broke the story last week that Affleck successfully pressured Gates to edit information about his slaveholding ancestor out of an upcoming episode of the program on his ancestry.

On Tuesday, PBS told Breitbart News in a statement it is conducting an “internal review” of the Affleck matter.

Breitbart News can not definitively confirm that Benjamin L. Cole is the only candidate to be Ben Affleck’s slaveholding ancestor, or that he is the ancestor Affleck requested be edited out of the “Finding Your Roots” program. It may be possible that Affleck has more than one slaveholding ancestor in his family tree.

A preliminary search of publicly available records indicates that Benjamin L. Cole may have been Affleck’s great-great-great grandfather.

Born in Georgia around 1816, Cole, who did not own slaves in 1840, according to the 1840 U.S. Census, owned 25 slaves ten years later, according to the 1850 U.S. Census Slave Schedules. That census record can be seen here:

LikelySuspectBenjaminLCole_1850_Census_SlaveSchedules

By 1860, according to U.S. Census records, Cole  was the Sheriff of Chatham County, in which Savannah is located. The Slave Schedules of the 1860 Census show that Cole held slightly more than two dozen slaves on behalf of a trust or estate.

Cole’s daughter, Maggie (or Margaret) married Flournoy Roberts in 1882 in Chatham County, Georgia.

Their son, Lawrence Lester Roberts, was born in Washington, D.C. around 1894.

His daughter, Elizabeth N. Roberts, Affleck’s maternal grandmother, was born in New York, New York in 1921.

Ms. Roberts graduated from the exclusive Williston Northampton private school in Easthampton, Massachusetts (near Amherst), in 1938. She went on to spend many years as the public information director for the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Elizabeth N. Roberts and her first husband, William O’Brien Bouldt had a daughter, Christopher Anne Bouldt, who is Ben Affleck’s mother. Roberts later married Samuel Shaw, and was subsequently known professionally as Elizabeth Shaw.

Affleck released a statement on Facebook Tuesday in which he apologized for pressuring Gates to edit the information about his slaveholding ancestor out of the episode of “Finding Your Roots” that features his family tree. Affleck, however, did not provide any information about the identity of his slaveholding ancestor.

In his statement, Affleck said:

After an exhaustive search of my ancestry for “Finding Your Roots,” it was discovered that one of my distant relatives was an owner of slaves.

I didn’t want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves. I was embarrassed. The very thought left a bad taste in my mouth.

Skip decided what went into the show. I lobbied him the same way I lobby directors about what takes of mine I think they should use. This is the collaborative creative process. Skip agreed with me on the slave owner but made other choices I disagreed with. In the end, it’s his show and I knew that going in. I’m proud to be his friend and proud to have participated.

It’s important to remember that this isn’t a news program. Finding Your Roots is a show where you voluntarily provide a great deal of information about your family, making you quite vulnerable. The assumption is that they will never be dishonest but they will respect your willingness to participate and not look to include things you think would embarrass your family.

I regret my initial thoughts that the issue of slavery not be included in the story. We deserve neither credit nor blame for our ancestors and the degree of interest in this story suggests that we are, as a nation, still grappling with the terrible legacy of slavery. It is an examination well worth continuing. I am glad that my story, however indirectly, will contribute to that discussion. While I don’t like that the guy is an ancestor, I am happy that aspect of our country’s history is being talked about.

Breitbart News has asked Affleck, through his publicist, to give us his take on Benjamin L. Cole. Affleck has not yet responded.

Old Man River

.

Hollywood movie star Ben Affleck has two additional slaveholding ancestors. S.L. Speisseger, who owned 3 slaves in Chatham County Georgia in 1840, according to 1840 U.S. Census, and Georgia A. Speissegger Cole, who owned 1 slave in 1863 and 1864, according to Savannah and Chatham County, Georgia tax digests found by the Daily Beast.

This brings the total number of Affleck’s known slaveholding ancestors to 14, and the number of slaves either owned or “held” as a trustee or on behalf of an estate by these ancestors to 242.

This number includes the 23 slaves Benjamin L. Cole, Affleck’s great-great-great grandfather, held in 1860 on behalf of the estate of Ann Norton, his mother-in-law by his first wife, and the 8 slaves he held as a trustee for S. L. Speissegger, his father-in-law by his second wife. It also includes the 25 slaves he owned in 1850, according the 1850 U.S. Census Slave Schedule, which the Daily Beast suggested on Tuesday he may have held on behalf of an estate or trust rather than owned.

Cole is the Affleck ancestor at the center of the public relations scandal involving Affleck, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, and the PBS series “Finding Your Roots.” Gates serves as an executive producer and host of that series.

Affleck admits that he successfully lobbied Gates to edit his slaveholding ancestor Cole out of an episode of “Finding Your Roots,” which featured his family history.

Previously, Breitbart News reported that Affleck had 12 slaveholding ancestors who owned 214 slaves.

S.L. Speissegger, Affleck’s 4 times great-grandfather, was born in South Carolina in 1792, and was the father of Affleck’s great-great-great grandmother Georgia A. Speissegger Cole, who became the second wife of Affleck’s great-great-great grandfather Benjamin L. Cole in 1857.

S.L. Speissegger died in 1867, which would explain why Cole held those 8 slaves “in trust” as opposed to “on behalf of the estate of.”

Recent research published by the Daily Beast on Tuesday suggests that Benjamin Cole may have been a slaveholder but not a slaveowner, a distinction that may not seem to be a difference to those of us in the modern era, but which would have been significant back in the 1850s.

Writing in ‘The Accidental Slaveowner,’ a book published by the University of Georgia Press in 2011 about a true story of slavery in Georgia during the 1840s, Professor Mark Auslander of Eastern Washington University said that he “used the term ‘slaveholder’ when characterizing a situation in which a person had legal control of another human being, for example as a trustee or administrator, without full legal ownership, [and] the term ‘slaveowner’ instances where legal possession was unambiguous.”

The Daily Beast cites an argument made by genealogist Barbara Stock that accurately explains Cole’s 1860 status as a slaveholder, and suggests that he may also have been a slaveholder, not a slave owner, in 1850 as well:

Using Georgia tax digests from Chatham County and Savannah—which give an annual account of wealth, including slave ownership—in conjunction with the census, which took a count only once a decade, Stock found evidence that while Affleck’s ancestor was the executor of estates that included slaves, he owned none himself.

Stock found that the 1850 federal census slave schedule—used by PBS, Breitbart, and others to show Cole’s wealth and slave-holding status—is in conflict with the tax digests. Though the 1850 census record doesn’t indicate Cole was simply a trustee, the tax digests show he owned no slaves or land at that point. . . .

Breitbart News can confirm that the Chatham County, Georgia tax records of 1850 do not show Benjamin L. Cole, aged 36 at the time, as an owner of slaves. Those same Chatham County tax records of 1850 show that his mother-in-law, Anne S. Norton, aged 65, who, according to the 1850 U.S. Census, resided with Cole and his wife, her daughter, owned 21 slaves.

The 1840 U.S. Census records show that Anne S. Norton owned 8 slaves in Chatham County, Georgia. According to the 1845 Chatham County tax records, she owned 15 slaves, but according to the Chatham County tax records of 1846, the following year, she owned no slaves.

This suggests that the Chatham County tax records of this period may not always have been the most reliable indicator of slave owner status.

There is no evidence that the slaves Cole owned in 1850, according to the 1850 U.S. Census Slave Schedules, were held in his capacity as the executor of an estate, and particularly the estate of his mother-in-law Anne S. Norton, as she was still alive and living with him and his first wife, Catherine Norton at that time.

Anne S. Norton died in 1858. Catherine Norton died some time between 1850 and 1857.

The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday that upon her death “Cole’s mother-in-law [Anne S. Norton] left 11 slaves to him [when she died in 1858] to hold in trust for her three grandsons until they reached age 21. Their names were Buffy, John, Betty, Robert, Lydia, Caroline, Alfred, Ned, Susan, Tommy, and Harry.”

It is possible that the 25 slaves listed as owned by Benjamin Cole in the 1850 U.S. Census Slave Schedule included the 21 slaves owned in 1850 by his mother-in-law Anne Norton, according to the Chatham County tax records, though there is no indication of a formal establishment of Benjamin Cole as the legal trustee of these 21 slaves at this time.

However, there is no historical evidence that accounts for the additional 4 slaves listed as owned by Cole in the 1850 U.S. Census Slave Schedules were held in an estate or trustee capacity.

There’s also another bit of confusion here.

Since the 1840 U.S. Census showed Ann Norton as the owner of 8 slaves, it seems hard to understand why her ownership, if it continued, was not recognized as such in the 1850 U.S. Census Slave Schedule.

The bottom line on Affleck’s great-great-great grandfather Benjamin Cole is this: he was a slaveholder in 1860, and may have been either a slaveholder or slave owner in 1850, and possibly both.

Ironically, the controversy surrounding Affleck’s successful lobbying efforts to edit slaveholding ancestor Cole out of the episode of “Finding Your Roots” has led to the discovery of his additional 13 slaveholding ancestors.

Here’s the complete list of Affleck’s 14 known slaveholding ancestors:

Benjamin L. Cole, Affleck’s great-great-great grandfather from Georgia, the owner of 25 slaves in the 1850 U.S. Census Slave Schedule, and “holder” of 31 slaves in the 1860 U.S. Census Slave Schedule.

Georgia A. Speissegger Cole, Affleck’s great-great-great grandmother from Georgia, the owner of 1 slave according to the 1863 Chatham County, Georgia tax records.

S.L. Speissegger, Affleck’s 4 times great grandfather, the owner of 3 slaves according to the 1840 U.S. Census.

James Henry Alexander, Affleck’s 4 times great grandfather, the owner of 50 slaves in Mississippi, according to the 1860 U.S. Census Slave Schedules.

Adam Larkin Alexander, Affleck’s 5 times great grandfather, the owner of 23 slaves in Tennessee, according to the 1830 U.S. Census Slave Schedules.

Levi Roberts, Affleck’s great-great-great grandfather, the owner of 7 slaves in Mississippi, according to the 1860 U.S. Census Slave Schedules.

Thomas Nelson McClain, Affleck’s 4 times great grandfather, who owned 11 slaves in Arkansas 1850, according to the 1850 U.S. Census Slave Schedules.

David Boxley, Affleck’s 4 times great grandfather, who owned 23 slaves in Mississippi in 1840, according to the 1840 U.S. Census.

Charles Smith, Affleck’s 5 times great grandfather, who owned 16 slaves in Tennessee in 1830, according to the 1830 U.S. Census.

John Pryor Smith, Affleck’s 6 times great grandfather, who owned 23 slaves in North Carolina in 1820, according to the 1820 U.S. Census.

Lemuel Smith, Affleck’s 6 times great grandfather, who also owned 24 slaves in North Carolina in 1820, according to the 1820 U.S. Census.

Charles Smith, Affleck’s 7 times great grandfather, who owned 3 slaves in Virginia in 1761, according to his will.

Bernard Hanlon, Affleck’s 8 times great grandfather who owned at least 1 slave, in New Jersey in the 1790s. Breitbart News has obtained a copy of the hand-written 1795 manumission document in which Hanlon emancipated his slave named “Guy.”

Nathaniel Stanley, Affleck’s 8 times great grandfather, who owned 1 slave in Connecticut in the 1728, according to genealogical research conducted by the Daily Mail.

Reports of a 15th slaveholding ancestor, identified by the Daily Mail as James McGuire, can not be confirmed. The Daily Mail has reported that McGuire owned 8 slaves on his farm in New Jersey during the 1840s.  The problem with this report is that New Jersey abolished slavery in the 1820s.

As genealogical research continues, the number of Affleck’s known slaveholding ancestors may continue to rise.