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Michelle Obama Slavery Roots Traced By Genealogist Megan Smolenyak (VIDEO)

Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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The New York Times today ran an article tracing the ancestral roots of First Lady Michelle Obama back five generations to her great-great-great-grandm...

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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

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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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Michelle Obama's Slave Ancestors Discovered

Seattle Times | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

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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 whitew...

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