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Sep 22, 2020 · AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Harris did not make that statement, and there is no evidence anyone in her family went from India to Jamaica to exploit Black slaves. THE FACTS: Posts online are falsely suggesting that Kamala Harris’ ancestors traveled from India to Jamaica to benefit from the slave trade.
Aug 12, 2020 · Did Kamala Harris descend from a slave owner and it is a "deep, dark secret" that has "come back to haunt" her? Yes, it is true that Sen. Harris does apparently have an Irish great-great-great-great-great grandfather who owned slaves in Jamaica, it is also likely that Harris's great-great-great-great-great grandmother was his slave and was ...
Apr 26, 2021 · It is true that Irish-born Brown enslaved people in Jamaica. If Harris’s great-grandmother Miss Chrishy was descended from Brown, though (which has not been definitively proven), it is almost certainly due to rape. According to Jamaican professor of history Sasha Turner, “rape was part of the everyday experience of slavery.”
Aug 30, 2020 · Kamala Harris ancestor was slave owner in Jamaica, her father says Donald Harris says his roots go back to Hamilton Brown, an infamous, Irish-born, slave-owning British planter in Jamaica. Published: August 30, 2020 12:44pm
Aug 19, 2020 · Nanny, who appears on Jamaica’s $500 bill, was a fierce fighter who escaped slavery, freed more than 1,000 enslaved Black people from sugar plantations in Jamaica and waged a war,...
Shyamala Gopalan was the mother of Kamala Harris. She was an Indian biologist and civil rights activist from Chennai, India. Shyamala was born on April 7, 1938, to P. V. Gopalan and his wife, Rajam. Gopalan's family belongs to the Brahmin caste. Gopalan was from Thulasenthirapuram and Rajam was from Painganadu – agrarian villages located very ...
Jan 22, 2021 · Meanwhile, in that article about the family’s Jamaican history, the elder Harris mentioned in passing that one of their ancestors was white slave owner Hamilton Brown.
