Posted on 07/31/2012 12:41:59 PM PDT by TopDeadCenter
A study from Ancestry.com has determined that President Obama is related to John Punch, the first black African enslaved for life in America--which would make Punch the 11th great-grandfather of Obama.
The connection is made through Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunhan. The website's records say she had ancestors who were white landowners in Colonial Virginia who descended from an African man, Punch.
According to the site's press release, Punch tried to escape indentured servitude in colonial Virginia in 1640 and was punished by becoming enslaved for life. The records show that Punch had children with a white woman, and her status as free was passed on to her offspring. Punch's descendents became successful landowners in the slave-owning state of Virginia.
This would mean that the first documented slave and the first African American president have a shared lineage, claim researchers. Said Ancestry.com's genealogist Joseph Shumway, "John Punch was more than likely the genesis of legalized slavery in America. But after centuries of suffering, the Civil War, and decades of civil rights efforts, his 11th great-grandson became the leader of the free world and the ultimate realization of the American Dream."
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Not only did ol' Stanley Anne get around, apparently so did her forebears. What a family.
Those don’t look like “O’s.” They look like something far more appropriate for Obama.... triangles.
Wasn’t Clinton related to the first slave.
What a convenient, pleasant smelling, bow ribboned, elegantly styled crock of shit.
He was convicted of trying to run out on an obligation--indenture was a contract exchanging future servitude for passage here.
He was, to be frank, a convict, a crook.
Considering the apple often falls close to the tree, they just might be related.
...that goes centuries before him but, he is not the last, slavery is alive and well in Africa, Asia and Middle-East.
Also true.
Setting aside the fact that the lineage can't be proved, it sounds like Punch came over as an indentured servant, not aboard a slave ship. He was enslaved when he tried to escape his servitude. BIG difference.
Very interesting, that the name Bunch is Melungeon.
Weren’t (aren’t) the Melungeons a mixture of native american, white, and black? If so my guess is that the descendants of the white woman and Bunch/Punch joined the Melungeon group, but of course Ancestry.com has no real connection.
It’s alive here as well. We work 1/3rd of the year for our Massa govment.
Anthony Johnson
It is little known and not oft remembered that blacks were not always slaves in America. It started right then, with Mr. Punch. Then, bit by bit, it expanded from indentured servitude to the forcible kidnapping and export of human beings. And we all know who the slave catchers were, don’t we. Brock’s people from the OTHER side of the family.
Nothing more than a diversion directed at obtaining more black votes.
Some lady called Rush today and said she was an expert on genetics. According to her all you need is a blood sample from Obama and a DNA test can tell if there if there is any African in him from his mothers side. I would guess he would not give it because it may prove his dad is not who he thinks it is. What a tangled web we weave.
Nothing more than a diversion directed at obtaining more black votes.
Nothing more than a diversion directed at obtaining more black votes.
Thank you!
“Anthony Johnson was an Angolan African held as an indentured servant by a merchant in the Colony of Virginia in 1620, but later freed to become a successful tobacco farmer and owner. Notably, he was the first to hold a black African servant as a legal slave in the mainland American colonies. “
Stay focused folks...this silly BS is propaganda designed to make you forget the Obama Take Down of America. He is Socialist/Communist desperately trying to complete his promised ‘fundamental change’ of this Free and Capitalist Nation into a dissipated and hopeless nation once the shinning light to the world. Obama’s hate for capitalism and successful people apparently knows no bounds. How many of you would knowingly elect again a Marxist/Socialist as POTUS?
Amazing the lengths the Radical Socialists will go to keep their pawn in office.
They have a couple of months to generate some kind of “proof” so it can be trounced around - a vote against Obama is even more racist than it was before...
puke puke puke...
Wait...”first enslaved man”...? Does that mean that Obama’s black?
We are in desperate need of an upgrade that takes us out of the last century and into this century in terms of a website. HTML codes? Really /rolls eyes.
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