Michelle Obama's Slave Ancestors Discovered

Seattle Times:

Tiny wooden cabins line the dirt road once known as Slave Street as it winds through Friendfield Plantation.

More than 200 slaves lived in the whitewashed shacks in the early 1800s, and some of their descendants remained for more than 100 years after the Civil War. The last tenants abandoned the hovels about 30 years ago, and even they would have struggled to imagine a distant daughter of the plantation one day calling the White House home.

But a historical line can be drawn from these Low Country cabins to Michelle Obama, charting an American family's improbable journey through slavery, segregation, the civil-rights movement and a historic presidential election.

Read the whole story: Seattle Times

Comments

[arspar183]

Wow! This is an incredible story. I was born and raised in Georgetown, SC. I've told many people that Michelle Obama looks a little like my sister, a little. Could be we share common ancestors.

[DeniseD]

Maybe so! That would be pretty exciting.

[shel3364]

very moving.

[Charmed]

OMG.....a black woman with a slave relate from the pass....this is shocking.

[wmafoune]

You missed the point...The point is where her ancestors came from when they were slaves....