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Michelle Obama Descended From Young Slave Girl and White Owner

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama's Slave Ancestry, Mixed Race, Ancestry, Civil Rights, Politics, Us-News, Genealogy, Politics News
Marlene H. Phillips

First Lady Michelle Obama's great-great-great grandmother, a 14-year-old slave girl named Melvinia, was impregnated by a white slave owner.

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Michelle Obama: Family History Of First Lady Is Complex, Tied To Slavery

The New York Times | RACHEL L. SWARNS and JODI KANTOR | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Relatives, Dolphus Shields, Great-Great-Great-Grandparents, Melvinia Shields, First Lady, Michelle Obama, White Father, Ancestry, Slavery, Roots, Slave Mother, Family History, Michelle-Obama-Ancestry, Politics News

Melvinia Shields, the enslaved and illiterate young girl, and the unknown white man who impregnated her are the great-great-great-grandparents of Mich...

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A Sort of Hajj: The Pull of Ancestral Homelands

Daniel Cubias | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living

Read More: El Salvador, Latinos, Travel, Immigration, Hispanics, Family History, Hajj, Motherland, Homeland, Political Activism, Ancestry, El Salvador Junta, Ancestral Heritage, Travel Destinations, Hitlist, Living News
Daniel Cubias

With all the dream destinations in the world that I have yet to conquer, why am I hung up on visiting a tiny country best known for warfare and which my family abandoned a generation ago?

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