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Michelle Obama’s family tree has roots in a Carolina slave plantation

In Civil Rights, Politics & Law posted by TD Staff

Michelle Obama’s great-great-grandfather, who was born around 1850, lived as a slave, at least until the Civil War, on the sprawling rice plantation.

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