[lbo-talk] Obama's ancestors had slaves

Dwayne Monroe idoru345 at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 2 16:31:30 PST 2007


Ah, in my haste earlier I neglected to mention a quite good book - written by the aunt of an old friend of mine (yes, that's we call a "plug" in the show biz) - about this very topic.

No, not the Obama mishigas - the larger topic of having slave owners in the family tree.

*My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-first Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots*

by Thulani Davis

Amazon link -

<http://www.amazon.com/Confederate-Kinfolk-Twenty-first-Freedwoman-Discovers/dp/0465015743/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-1020420-9725616?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1172880442&sr=1-1>

Tiny url -

http://preview.tinyurl.com/2sbmho

.d.



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