Seems Mr. Blackface Ralph Northam isn’t the first uber racist in his family. Turns out, his family history shows that his great grandfather owned as at least 42 slaves! No wonder Northam and the Northam family have been life long Democrats! Northam’s great grandfather who owned 42 slaves was also a “red shirt” (a gang of white supremacists) and named J.E. Brownlee.
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Northam’s roots can be traced back to his great grandfather, Captain J.E. Brownlee, also a Democrat, who fought against the Yankees in the Civil War. After the war, he was a stalwart member of the “Red Shirts,” a group of white supremacists – all Democrats – who made a name for themselves by intimidating freed slaves to stop them from voting.
“In the days of the sixties that tried men’s courage and called for self-sacrifice and devotion to their country, Capt. Brownlee was tried and found not wanting,” Brownlee’s obituary reads. “With his valiant company of ‘Red Shirts’ he was always at the front, and in the right place, and it may truthfully be said that he did as much to redeem his country from Radical rule and tyranny as any man in upper Carolina.”