I'll admit to missing one line, I read their post an additional two times after being told that and I missed the line both times before finally catching it. I blame wordwrap and a lack of capitalization, but it was my mistake.
Doesn't change anything I said, it just means I guessed based on a German immigrating to land "never touched by slavery" unnecessarily.
He explicitly stated in his comment that they settled in the Midwest.
Might be everybody on all sides of this conversation needs to calm down a bit.