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Nov 9, 2020 · The rise of Kamala Harris to vice-president-in-waiting of the United States has been welcomed with jubilation in Brown’s Town, St Ann, the birthplace of her father, Professor Donald Harris, and where several of her relatives still reside. Harris is the first woman to be elected vice-president and will assume office on January 20, 2021.
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The slave owner at the heart of this controversy died in Jamaica on Sept. 18, 1843, "in the sixty-eighth year of his age." His headstoneis located in St. Mark's Anglican (Church of England) cemetery in Brown's Town and establishes that he was born, likely in 1776, in County Antrim, in what is now Northern Ireland. According to one contemporary news...
We discovered ample evidence of Brown's slave ownership and his political and business career on the island of Jamaica. However, details about his immediate family are lacking, by comparison. With the generous and expert assistance of Rachel Lang, a researcher at University College London's "Legacies of British Slave-Ownership" project, we have man...
Finally, it is worth noting that, even if it is true that the Harris family are descendants of the Antrim slave owner Hamilton Brown, they are also quite likely to be descendants of slaves. It is well-documented that British and Irish slave owners in the Caribbean (and their counterparts in the American colonies) routinely raped and engaged in illi...
Kamala Harris with her Jamaican grandmother Miss Chrishy in Browns Town Jamaica. Her father, Donald J. Harris is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. Born near Brown’s Town, Jamaica, he came to the U.S. in 1963.
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Jan 17, 2021 · Brown’s Town summers. ... Kamala Harris and her sister, (Maya) far right, spend time with their cousins in Jamaica. (Photo: Courtesy of Kamala Harris) Donald Harris, who was working on a ...
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Sep 22, 2020 · 0. A proud daughter of immigrants and the most high-profile Black woman in American politics, Kamala Harris is at an extraordinary time in her life. She is walking into history as the first Black, Indian, Caribbean soror to become a vice-presidential pick in U.S. history. At this moment, for the Democratic party and for Caribbean-Americans ...
Aug 17, 2020 · Senator Kamala Harris’s paternal great-grandfather, Joseph Alexander Harris (1874-1939), merchant and planter, owned Orange Hall estate, a 250-acre pimento (all-spice) plantation in the hills adjoining Brown’s Town, St Ann. Joseph Alexander Harris was the son of James Henry Harris and Eliza Brown .
