I mean no disrespect to anyone, as I realize that this can be a sensitive topic. My understanding has been that after the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War, sometimes freed slaves would take the names of their former masters. Growing up, I had noticed that a common African American last name is Frasier (or Frazier or Fraser or some variant), which is also the last name of some of my relatives. I know that the Scottish Clan Fraser is one of the larger Scottish Clans and probably had several transplants to America.

Does anyone have any information about the Clan Fraser in America and what the relationship between these families and any Africans (slaves or otherwise) was in the time period surrounding the Civil War?