Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG: Michelle's ancestry revealed

In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate took pen in hand and painstakingly divided up his possessions.
Among the spinning wheels, scythes, tablecloths and cattle that he bequeathed to his far-flung heirs was a 6-year-old slave girl valued soon afterward at $475.
In his will, she is described simply as the “negro girl Melvinia.”

Melvinia was ripped from her family, shipped to George and – while still only a teenager – gave birth to a son, fathered by an unknown white man.

It’s unlikely he was proud of the association at the time. But perhaps he should have been. His great-great-great grandchild - this son's great-great grandchild – was Michelle Obama.

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