Barack Hussein Obama Is A Descendent Of Slave Owners

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Barack Hussein Obama is a descendant of slave owners. It appears that forebears of his white mother, Ann Dunham, owned slaves, according to genealogical research and census records.

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The records, which have never been addressed publicly by Obama, were first noted in an ancestry report compiled by William Addams Reitwiesner, who worked at the Library of Congress and practiced genealogy in his spare time.

The Baltimore Sun reported:

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 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. (Slaves are listed in the 1850 census by owner, age, “sex,” and “colour,” not by name.)

An Obama spokesman did not dispute the information and said that the senator’s ancestors “are representative of America.”

“While a relative owned slaves, another fought for the Union in the Civil War,” campaign spokesman Bill Burton said last night. “And it is a true measure of progress that the descendant of a slave owner would come to marry a student from Kenya and produce a son who would grow up to be a candidate for president of the United States.”

The research traces the Duvalls to Mareen Duvall, a major land owner in Anne Arundel County in the 1600s. The inventory of his estate in 1694 names 18 slaves, according to a family history published in 1952.

Obama makes no mention of this in his 1995 memoir, ‘Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.’

The book contains many approving references to his mother’s side of the family. At one point, he writes that his mother “could give voice to the virtues of her midwestern past and offer them up in distilled form.”

The memoir, however, comes close to confirming the Overall-Duvall lineage – stopping a generation short. Census and other records complete the gaps.

In a reference to his American ancestry, Obama writes “while one of my great-great-grandfathers, Christopher Columbus Clark, had been a decorated Union soldier, his wife’s mother was rumored to have been a second cousin of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy.”

The records, which have never been addressed publicly by Obama, 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.

Clark was actually Obama’s great-great-great-grandfather, according to Reitwiesner’s research and census data available at ancestry.com. A 1930 census document lists Clark, 84, living in the same El Dorado City, Kan., household as a 12-year-old great-grandson, Stanley A. Dunham. Dunham was Obama’s grandfather.

Clark’s wife, Susan, was the daughter of George Washington Overall, the latest known family slave owner.

HT Americas Freedom Fighters

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