What is going on everyone and welcome back to the channel. I hope you're all doing well.

Now, today I've got for you a couple of fantastic revenge stories, starting with this one from the 1800s.

That's right, guys, we're going back a couple of hundred years in America to see how John, the absolute legend, dealt with horrible racism at the hands of one business owner.

How my ancestor took down a racist businessman. This is ancester Took Down a Racist Businessman.

This is an old story that's been told in my family for as long as I can remember.

We're talking my grandfather was told it by his grandfather and so on.

Note that this story has had close to 200 years to be embellished and twisted, so take

everything with a grain of salt, rather than just scream fake.

Even if only a fourth of the story is true, it's still a great story.

This is the story of my ancestor, Will called John, because that's the name I've always been told.

John was a black man in America during the time when slavery was dying out, his grandparents, having been brought there from Africa, along with their children.

John eventually was freed through some means.

I've heard both that he paid his way out or the state he was in abolished slavery and he was freed that way.

And he found himself fighting in the civil war because he felt it was the right thing to do.

During the war, he became good friends with a man only known as Mitch, who supposedly

came from money but had joined against his parents' wishes because he believed in freedom for all.

Again, grain of salt. The two of them were in the same regiments and made it through alive,

though some relatives say Mitch lost the leg

or an arm in the war. Fast forward to the end of the war, and John and his new wife Mary

he'd met during the war used the money he'd earned to set up a small shop on the East Coast,

most common city mentioned is Boston, in a small neighbourhood. The shop became successful. John being a charming man and surprisingly

savvy businessman. The neighborhood he'd set it up in quickly grew as the city grew, meaning there

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