Finding Your Roots

Would you please read the transcription? Property belonging to the succession of Andrew Hynes, Victor, aged three years at $200. Wow. That is your third great-grandfather, Victor, three years old. Three years. Property. Read that, what's he worth? $200. Can you imagine putting a figure on a human being? Unbelievable. Yeah. It puts this country's history in perspective for me to see a document that says "Property," when referring to a human being in my lineage. That's one of those things that I can't fathom how people saw it as the right thing to do. To look you in the eye and to look at you as a piece of property. I don't see how people could've been okay with that.