The Briefing Room
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: mystery-ak on June 20, 2013, 07:21:11 pm
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George W. Bush’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Was a Slave Trader
A surprising new discovery about the notorious Thomas “Beau” Walker.
By Simon Akam|Posted Thursday, June 20, 2013, at 5:44 AM
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Drawing by William Smith, surveyor for the Royal African Co. of England, 1726
BUNCE ISLAND, Sierra Leone—Twelve American presidents owned slaves, eight while serving in office, and at least 25 presidents count slave owners among their ancestors. But new historical evidence shows that a direct ancestor of George W. and George H.W. Bush was part of a much more appalling group: Thomas Walker was a notorious slave trader active in the late 18th century along the coast of West Africa.
Walker, George H.W. Bush's great-great-great grandfather, was the captain of, master of, or investor in at least 11 slaving voyages to West Africa between 1784 and 1792.
Scores of European merchants and American plantation owners grew rich on the trade that transported more than 10 million Africans to North America, the Caribbean, and Brazil between 1550 and 1850. Bush's family, like many others, has previously been identified as slave owners in the United States. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, at least five Walker family households, George W. Bush’s ancestors by his father’s mother, owned slaves in Maryland’s Cecil County.
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You can tell Bush's popularity has risen..they are out to bring him down again...if they [MSM] investigated O'Bama as mush as they do everyone else that bleep wouldn't be in the WH now!
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OMG.......... WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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In anyone's family, and I mean anyone, with that many generations of separation you'll find something nefarious. I would like to point out though that with fewer degrees of separation, Bush and Obama are related, and thus, Obama is related to the same slave trader.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/regional/item_KJXdKMwZqBgHPdXXdGWnEP
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I'm half Portuguese by descent. Odds ain't bad my ancestor sold W's ancestor "the goods". So frickin' what? :thud:
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With 64 GGGG Grandparents, its pretty likely all of us have one who traded slaves, including Obama.
So How many great-great ........ great grandparents do we have?
You have:
4 grandparents (50yrs ago)
8 great grandparents (75yrs ago)
16 greatx2 grandparents (100yrs ago)
32 greatx3 grandparents (125yrs ago)
64 greatx4 grandparents (150yrs ago)
128 greatx5 grandparents (175yrs ago)
256 greatx6 grandparents (200yrs ago)
512 greatx7 grandparents (225yrs ago)
1024 greatx8 grandparents (250yrs ago)
2048 greatx9 grandparents (275yrs ago)
4096 greatx10 grandparents (300yrs ago)
8192 greatx11 grandparents (325yrs ago)
16,384 greatx12 grandparents (350yrs ago)
32,768 greatx13 grandparents (375yrs ago)
65,536 greatx14 grandparents (400yrs ago)
131,072 greatx15 grandparents (425yrs ago)
262,144 greatx16 grandparents (450yrs ago)
524,288 greatx17 grandparents (475yrs ago)
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With 64 GGGG Grandparents, its pretty likely all of us have one who traded slaves, including Obama.
So How many great-great ........ great grandparents do we have?
You have:
4 grandparents (50yrs ago)
8 great grandparents (75yrs ago)
16 greatx2 grandparents (100yrs ago)
32 greatx3 grandparents (125yrs ago)
64 greatx4 grandparents (150yrs ago)
128 greatx5 grandparents (175yrs ago)
256 greatx6 grandparents (200yrs ago)
512 greatx7 grandparents (225yrs ago)
1024 greatx8 grandparents (250yrs ago)
2048 greatx9 grandparents (275yrs ago)
4096 greatx10 grandparents (300yrs ago)
8192 greatx11 grandparents (325yrs ago)
16,384 greatx12 grandparents (350yrs ago)
32,768 greatx13 grandparents (375yrs ago)
65,536 greatx14 grandparents (400yrs ago)
131,072 greatx15 grandparents (425yrs ago)
262,144 greatx16 grandparents (450yrs ago)
524,288 greatx17 grandparents (475yrs ago)
Actually, it's much more likely that Obama is more closely related to a slave-trading ancestor than most European-Americans. Africans not only owned each other as slaves, it was they who supplied most of the slaves to the slave-traders who brought slaves to the Americas.