Revealed: George W. Bush’s great-great-great-great-grandfather was a slave trader

The Daily Mail ^ | 20 June 2013

[MinorityRepublican]

Researchers claim that a brutal slave-trader who brought captive slaves from West Africa to Colonial America is the same man whose descendants produced two U.S. presidents. George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush.

Historians already knew that the Bush family was directly connected to Thomas Walker, yet they were unable to figure out which was the ancestor of the Bush's.

Records show there was a Thomas Walker who was a merchant from Baltimore who was in Great Britain in 1758.

Archives also show Thomas Walker was a slave merchant and captain who bought and sold West African slaves in the late 1700s.

However, it was only recently that a retired genealogist and a historian in Sierra Leone finally figured out the two Thomas Walkers are actually the same person.

[Freeport]

Gee... So now it’s not what a person has done, but his ancestors too?

Hummm.... Let’s go look under Clinton’s & Carter’s beds then.

[LibLieSlayer]

Since clinton and bush are brothers...

LLS

[Homer1]

The Bushes are also descended from abolishinists. Look up Jebediah Bush.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks MinorityRepublican.

IOW, Hillary's 2016 campaign has already begun.

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[Homer1]

ooops Obadiah Bush

link

[trebb]

When will we see a headline like this:
Revealed: Baraaaaaak Obama's family tree indicates Zero American citizens in the lineage ?

[Vinnie]

And he was married to Paula Deen’s great great great great grandmother. :^)

[clearcarbon]

How do they know the were brought over as slaves and not just undocumented democrats?

[King Moonracer]

I wonder when they’ll figure out Obama’s ancestors sold slaves to Thomas Walker and that Obama Sr, the drunk driver killer, was not a US citizen, and BO is not a natural born citizen.

[DaveA37]

Lions and bears, Oh My!

So what is the big story here if Bush’s great ancestors were slave traders. Like Hitlary said, “What difference does it make”?

[conejo99]

I wonder how many people were engaged in the slave trade 250 years ago. If you included owners who then sold slaves I’d think it would be a fairly high percentage.
After 5 generations what percentage of the population would have one of those individuals as an ancestor?
That exceeds my knowledge and math, but I wouldn’t be surprised at a number like 50%.

[Verginius Rufus]

Apparently they have signatures by Thomas Walker to compare which is why they are saying it is the same man. He was killed in a mutiny by his own sailors, so he just wasn't mean to Africans.

He would be one of George W. Bush's 4th-great-grandfathers--one of 64 ancestors at that number of generations back. Since he was an ancestor of GWB's paternal grandmother, GWB has neither his Y-chromosome nor his mitochondrial DNA, and may not have inherited any genetic material from him at all.

Still, it's a good thing this did not come out in 2004 in time for Sixty Minutes to hype the story.

All this negative publicity about slave traders would make it impossible for Nathan Bedford Forrest to run for President, if he was still alive.

[GOPJ]

Democrat Robert Byrd was a KKK member - and he was in office just a few years ago..

[GOPJ]

Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd was a KKK member - and he was in office just a few years ago..

[MaxMax]

Has any race baiters done their due diligence on Obama yet, or are they waiting
for Obama to finish his second term plus 50-years?

I know they have, and if it was good they would print the information, = Bad news Obama.

[NathanR]

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Rebel general and a founding member of the KKK. He would never have been allowed to run for president, even as a Democrat.

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t believe I have any relatives back in my family tree that owned slaves. What if I did? I couldn’t change it. It has nothing to do with me.

I complain about Bush quite a bit, but this is worthless nonsense.

People can’t stand that Obama has destroyed himself and people are tired of it. So now they think they can sling mud at everyone and folks will forget about Obama.

Isn’t going to happen that way.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don’t know—details like that might be forgiven as long as he supported the current shibboleths of the Democratic Party—partial-birth abortion, same-sex marriage, amnesty for illegal aliens, and affirmative action.

[Verginius Rufus]

My ancestors on my father's side didn't come to the US until after the Civil War. Half of those on my mother's side had come in the decades before the Civil War but lived in free states; the other half were dirt farmers in slave states but not rich enough to be slaveowners.

Because of doing genealogical research, I know of a couple of ancestors several generations before the Civil War who had one or a few slaves--not plantation owners sitting on the verandah sipping mint juleps but yeoman farmers who had acquired one or two slaves, presumably as house servants. Of course that makes me guilty even if I may not have inherited any DNA from ancestors so far back.

Meanwhile, some of my European relatives were enslaved by Turks in the 18th century when pirates raided their village. Attitudes were more callous when even white Europeans risked being enslaved if they lived near a coast or sailed on the high seas.

[DoughtyOne]

Interesting comments. I’m not certain how accurate this is, but I’ve heard the U. S. only took about 5% of the slave trade here.

None the less, the U. S. is treated more like it took 99% of that trade.