Specifically, Obama’s great-great-great-great grandfather on his mother’s side, George Washington Overall, owned two slaves — a 15-year-old black girl and 25-year-old black man.
Obama’s great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Duvall, also owned two slaves — a 60-year-old black man and 58-year-old black woman.
Furthermore, the Duvalls, who lived in the 1800s, can be traced back to Mareen Duvall, a land owner in the 1600s who owned 18 slaves.
When this revelation initially broke in 2007, an Obama campaign spokesperson tried to deflect from it by arguing that Obama also had ancestors who “fought for the Union in the Civil War.”
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2 comments:
hypocrite at best. I'm sick of seeing so much talk of slavery. Right or wrong, slavery has been a part of ALL the worlds history, ALL cultures history; NOT just America, forever.
People need to just calm down, read world and American history and figure this out for themselves. Citizens of America are uneducated, whiney, clueless, sissys and need to really get a life. Shut up already.
And let's not forget the Kenyan side, slave owners and traders in that lineage, too. The slave trade was abolished there as late as the late 1870s, years after U.S. emancipation.
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