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Aug 14, 2020 · In 2018, Donald J. Harris, Kamala Harris’ father, said in an essay that he is the descendant of Hamilton Brown, an Irish man who enslaved people in Jamaica. We found a user-created lineage on ...
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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...
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Donald Jasper Harris was born in Brown's Town, St. Ann Parish, Jamaica, the son of Beryl Christie Harris ( née Finegan) [6] [7] and Oscar Joseph Harris, who were of Afro-Jamaican and Irish-Jamaican heritage [8] and whose father was descendant of slave owners. [9] As a child, Harris learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed in the ...
Aug 12, 2020 · Hamilton Brown was born in Ireland in 1776 and immigrated to Jamaica, where he became a prominent sugar planter and owner of slaves, according to one historical record. Brown died in 1843 at the age of 68, 46 years before Kamala Harris's paternal great-grandmother Christiana Brown (known as Miss Chrishy) was born and 121 years before Kamala's ...
Sep 22, 2020 · In Donald Harris’ 2018 essay, he wrote, “My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town).”
Apr 26, 2021 · Misbar’s investigation found that Harris’s father, Donald Harris, wrote an essay on his family history in Jamaica Global Online.In the essay, he says that his roots “go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town).”
Jan 13, 2021 · Kamala Harris’s father Donald is a proud islander who made sure his daughters know their heritage. ... so named after enslaver Hamilton Brown. It remains a rural area that bustles with markets ...
