The descendants of a slave and plantation owner met for dinner 181 years later

Nkrumah Steward descends from slaves. Robert Adams descends from slave owners. And last month, the men dined at the same table, on the very plantation where Adams' ancestors once owned Steward's, ABC News reports. 

In fact, the two men are actually blood relatives: In 1835, slave owner Joel Robert Adams had a child with a slave named Sarah Jones Adams. That child was Steward's great great great grandmother. 

Now— 181 years later — the families have reconnected and hope to become friends.

On June 30, Steward, 44, and his family traveled from their home in Michigan to visit the Adams family at Wavering Place Plantation near Hopkins, South Carolina.

The plantation was once a cotton farm, but is now rented out for events and educational tours.

It's been owned by the Adams family ever since its establishment back in 1768.