Well one of them anyway, on one side of my family. In this post about the Princeville doc I mentioned that some of my enslaved ancestors were owned by Elias Carr, who, several years after the end of slavery became the governor of North Carolina. I found his family home, Bracebridge Hall, which is listed in the national registry of historic places.

I tried to find some photos of it on the net but I could only find this one photo of some slave quarters taken by Chad Carraway for an elementary school photo contest.

I look at it and see my folks living in that after slaving from sun up to down, and I get chills.

Next time I go home I’ll have to go out to this place and take some proper pics of the main house, grounds, etc. The home is privately owned, I presume by his descendants, and is occasionally used for events. I want to buy this place one day. Everything has a price, after all. If I had Oprah money it would be so mine right now. I would sit on the porch and drink mint juleps, served to me by my all White staff…LOL!