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Fri 10 Oct 2009White slave-owner roots of Michelle Obama unearthed
WHEN HE drew up his will in 1850, the owner of First Lady Michelle Obama’s great-great-great-grandmother Melvinia valued the six-year-old slave girl at $475.
Mrs Obama’s ancestry, as researched by genealogist Megan Smolenyak and the New York Times, shows again the extraordinary mixed-race legacy of the United States.
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