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Article: Michelle Obama's slave girl ancestry revealed
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- October 9, 2009
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IF Michelle Obama had heard stories of a little white laced in
with the black in the distant branches of her family tree, she is no
longer in any doubt.
All the land learnt yesterday about the slave girl Melvinia --
her great-great-great grandmother -- and the mixed-race boy she
would one day bear.
The remarkable narrative of Mrs Obama's maternal roots was laid
out for the first time by The New York Times, using research by
Megan Smolenyak, a renowned genealogist.
It confirms what Mrs Obama long suspected -- that there was
racial intermingling in her bloodline in the distant days before the
end of slavery.
That her husband is of mixed descent has, of course, always been
central to his public ...