The Amazing Connection Between The Obamas And The Duke And Duchess Of Sussex

Michelle Obama Has White Ancestors From Georgia

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In 2009, The New York Times revealed that Michelle Obama had white ancestors. Mrs. Obama’s lineage can be traced back all the way to a young slave girl named Melvinia, who at six years old was taken from everything she knew in South Carolina and sold to the Shields family in Georgia in 1852.

She must have been around 15 years old around the time she gave birth to her first son, Dolphus, in 1859. Melvinia never revealed who Dolphus’s father was, nor did she divulge the circumstances surrounding his conception. This led many to speculate that she was raped, or that she had to keep quiet about an interracial relationship.