Geneologist traces first lady's family back to unknown white patriarch, who have fathered child with black slave girl. Michelle Obama had a great-great-great grandfather who was white and may have been the master of a black slave known as Melvinia, living in South Carolina. The discovery of the first lady's slave ancestor on her mother's side rounds off a picture of her family tree that until now has remained elusive in crucial parts
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Michelle Obama may have white slave-owner ancestor
