Kamala Harris is a descendant of an Irish slave owner in Jamaica

https://www.irishtimes.com ^ | July 23, 2024 | Rona McGreevy

[NKP_Vet]

Presumptive Democratic nominee and US vice-president Kamala Harris has Irish roots but not in a way that she is likely to embrace.

Ms Harris is the daughter of Donald J Harris, who was born in Jamaica, and Shyamala Gopalan Harris from India.

Genealogical research carried out by Northern Irish historian Stephen McCracken reveals Ms Harris’s four-times-paternal-great-grandfather Hamilton Brown was born in Co Antrim in 1776, the year of the US Declaration of Independence.

Brown emigrated to Jamaica, then a British colony, and became an enthusiastic slave owner on the sugar plantations that were the mainstay of the island’s economy. He opposed the abolition of slavery across the British Empire in 1832 and went to Antrim to replace his slaves with workers from his native county.

[frank ballenger]

I don’t know.

[PIF]

Being Jamaican she likely has some black genetics.
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Since a lot of people are from America’s South and because the South had lots of African slaves, today people from the South must all have some Black blood.

Makes as much sense as your Jamaican assumption. But nonetheless, no one in her family had any Black DNA.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Well with my family members who came from there 70 years ago, I feel I have a pretty good idea of what it’s like there!
But you want to just want to argue and think you are right , so have fun.

[tsowellfan]

Kamala Harris is a descendant of an Irish slave owner in Jamaica

Great-grandfather Hamilton Brown, from Co Antrim, was paid equivalent of €11m in compensation by British government to free slaves after ban.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/07/23/kamala-harris-is-a-descendant-of-an-irish-slave-owner-in-jamaica/

How about Kamala go first with €11m

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 7/23/2024, thanks NKP_Vet.

[MinorityRepublican]

All American Presidents, even Obama (through his mother’s side) were descended from slave owners except for Donald Trump (his ancestors came to America after slavery was abolished).