[tsowellfan]

Actually, I also heard about the slave trading. I wonder if that was from his dad's side or on his mom's. You are correct about the trading of slaves in his family.

However...

THE maternal ancestors of Barack Obama once owned slaves, genealogists have revealed.

According to the genealogists, George Washington Overall, Obama’s great-great-great-great grandfather, owned two slaves, a 15-year-old girl and 25-year-old man, who were listed in the 1850 Kentucky census. Another maternal ancestor owned two older slaves.

As you also stated they traded slaves, I have read that also. Perhaps also on his mom's side or perhaps on his father's side.

[3boysdad]

We’ve all been slaves at some point in our ancestral past.