Ah, nifty.
This page has a couple of charts with relevant information, including some states’ widely varying de jure dates of abolition and de facto years into which the institution of slavery persisted.
As far as the OP’s question goes: None of my paternal ancestors immigrated to the USA until after the Civil War, so any slaveholding on that line’s part would have been in Europe, and none is known. My mother’s antebellum ancestors were (for the era) religious liberals, and they owned little if any real estate, so I’m 99% sure that I’m innocent even under the “sins shall accrue to the seventh succeeding generation” rule.
Not in my family, but my daughter’s best friend in high school was descended from a slave owner (who fought for the South in the Civil War).
And, oh, yes – she was Black.
Evidently, her ancestor married one of his slaves after she was freed.
My 5th great-grandfather in Georgia had over 30 slaves as late as the civil war. In Virginia and Maryland in the 1600’s many ancestors mentioned slaves in their wills. Usually only one or two. Most of them were merely small time farmers but it wasn’t too hard to earn enough.
What amazes me is that there are the children of slaves alive today. The past seems so far away but it really isn’t.
No, it’s not. 
[HIJACK]Interesting article. There are probably a couple of others out there as well who just haven’t self-identified. I’m glad Alberta Martin, the one that article mentions as the last woman thought to be the last surviving Confederate widow- has lost even that tiny footnote of trivial fame, because she was a horrid old bitch. It’s not just that she relished the attention and awards and speaking engagements it brought her- no problem there- but because she threw in her lot with white supremacists and even addressed KKK and similar organizations spewing racial epithets and talking about how wonderful slavery was compared to the modern day and yadda bla, something glossed over in a lot of human interest stories on her. (This from a woman who had so much to be proud of from her own life and her own race that she married a half-dead octogenarian 4 times her age and admitted the children she bore while married to him were fathered by the man who became her second husband [and was, I believe, her husband’s grandson].[/HIJACK]
No. My family did not come from the United States. My husband’s biological family may have, they were Kentucky landowner types.
No. All of my ancestors immigrated to the US in the 20th century, and it seems unlikely that any of them could have been slave owners back in Ireland or shtetls in Ukraine and Lithuania.
I won’t link to it for obvious reasons, but she did interviews with stormfront dot org and in print for supremacist sites and was a fixture and rebel flag rallies, which not to cause a debate, is a movement that has serious overlap with white supremacist organizations. (Venn diagram disclaimer: not all rebel flag supporters are white supremacists, not all white supremacists are rebel flag supporters, etc.).
Mind telling me, then, who that black child was who kept fanning you with the peacock feathers when I met you? Or who lived in those shacks behind your house and kept singing mournful spirituals?
That seems pretty bad. One hates to think ill of little old ladies. etc. I could see someone from that age group “rallying around the flag” but stormfront seems rather nasty. Certainly bizarre compared to kissing the Black woman who was a Union veteran widow. Whatever.
Slave owners? Ha! I’m not even decended from Land owners. I think the highest my family rose was sharecroppers. Most of them were theives, but a few had the ambition to get on Welfare.
Shamefully, yes. My family had major holdings in the Carribbean, South America, and the USA.
Not a slave-owner per se, BUT an ancestor with my surname, a New York Yankee, worked in Charleston, South Carolina, as a cotton dealer, so I guess you could call him an “enabler.” He even published a booklet dealing with, I think, cotton rates in Liverpool. I have a photocopy squirreled away somewhere but too lazy to dig it out. I believe he was active in the 1840s-50s.
Of the four main branches of my family, one (mother’s mother) is untraceable, and two (mother’s father and father’s father) for the most part didn’t live in the United States before the end of slavery, but the last branch (father’s mother) included powerful Virginian plantation holders.