[Steely Tom]

I was going over my daughter's fifth-grade history assignment yesterday, Saturday 9 April. They're studying Harriet Tubman. The very first question she had to answer concerned Ms. Tubman's birth certificate.

My daughter had carefully written this for the answer: "Harriet Tubman had no birth certificate because she was born a slave."

[Spunky]

"Harriet Tubman had no birth certificate because she was born a slave."

My father born in 1912 had no Birth Certificate because he was born at home. When he reached SS age he had to have one, so his Aunt swore to all the facts surrounding his birth and then he was issued one.

[omegadawn]

Of course if your daughter had educated instructor, that person would have known that some of the most accurate records are those that were kept for slaves. Slaves were very valuable and most slave owners kept very detailed birth records. Hense it is easier to find birth records for slaves then it is for whites during the time of slavery,

[Publius6961]

My daughter had carefully written this for the answer: "Harriet Tubman had no birth certificate because she was born a slave."

Are you suggesting that Barack Hussein Obama was born a slave??