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Obama’s family owned slaves

We’re witnessing the scrubbing of information on Obama’s slave owning family in real time.

The Chicago Tribune removed their story as fast as they put it up.

Here’s a mention of the research that uncovered Obama’s family legacy in the Washington Post

When investigating Obama’s background, Mr. Reitwiesner found the future president’s familial ties to a Virginia slaveholding family.

Will this story be axed next?

Here is one from Baltimore Sun [March 2007]- A new twist to an intriguing family history.

The Chicago Tribune

Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas.

But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now: It appears that forebears of his white mother owned slaves, according to genealogical research and census records.

The records, which had never been addressed publicly by the Illinois senator or his relatives, were first noted in an ancestry report compiled by William Addams Reitwiesner, who works at the Library of Congress and practices genealogy in his spare time. The report, on Reitwiesner’s Web site, carries a disclaimer that it is a “first draft” –one likely to be examined more closely if Obama is nominated.

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.

The Baltimore Sun retraced much of Reitwiesner’s work, using census information available on the Web site ancestry.com and documents retrieved by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, among other sources. The records show that Overall, then 30, owned a 15-year-old black female and a 25-year-old black male, while Mary Duvall, his mother-in-law, owned a 60-year-old black man and a 58-year-old black woman.

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19 Comments on Obama’s family owned slaves

  1. The Chicago Tribune illustrates are how the press in Illinois works. Whoever was foolish enough to print facts will be scrubbed. Happens in po-dunk papers all over the State. There IS an agenda, and you must not stray.

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  2. Obama’s family in Africa sold slaves to europeans. Obama’s family in America owned slaves. Hypocrisy at its finest. I wonder now if Obama has white guilt since he is biracial?

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