Not sure what you can say about this, since "interesting" or "cool" really don't reflect the reality of slavery.Via Taegan-
Michelle Obama's great-great-grandfather, Jim Robinson, lived as a slave, at least until the Civil War, on a rice plantation in South Carolina, the Seattle Times reports.
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign "hired genealogists to research the family's roots at the onset of his presidential bid, but aides largely have kept the findings secret... Obama aides refused to discuss the report or allow Michelle Obama to be interviewed about her ancestry."
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