Dude people are really stretching to get dirt on Obama Barack's past. They even went as far as to trace his lineage back to when the white portion of his family (Obama's mother was from Kansas) owned slaves.
According to the research, one of Obama's great-great-great-great grandfathers, George Washington Overall, owned two slaves who were recorded in the 1850 census in Nelson County, Ky. The same records show that one of Obama's great-great-great-great-great-grandmothers, Mary Duvall, also owned two slaves.
Ok, Like I said in the title...which white people didn't own slaves? It's a part of our culture as Americans. It shows how far we have come as a society. SERIOUSLY why is this even coming up? I mean just the fact that a black man could descend from White Land Owners says a lot about what what America has become. I see this as a positive thing rather than "dirt" I can see the headlines now.."Obama, A descendent of Kenya and slave-owning white America becomes President"
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Many African Americas who researched their family trees would be shocked to discover some of their ancestors were slave owners. In the United States, free blacks as well as whites owned slaves (one of the South's biggest slave owners was a free black man.) The precentage of blacks who owned slaves was small, of course, but so was the perecentage of whites who owned slaves.
African Americans who traced their ancestory back to Africa would discover that virtually all their African ancestors were involved in the slave trade. African tribes ran the slave markets.
Virtually all Americas, regardless of their race or ethnic group, have ancestors who were slave owners.
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