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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4583478" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>From Snopes:</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kamala-harris-ancestor-slaves/" target="_blank">Did U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris' Ancestor Own Slaves in Jamaica?</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>"In his Jamaica Global article, Harris claimed to be descended from the 19th-century planter and slave owner Hamilton Brown. He <a href="http://archive.is/907zm" target="_blank">wrote</a>:</p><p></p><p>“My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, <strong>descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town</strong>) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (née Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me). The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural ‘produce’ exporter (mostly pimento or all-spice), who died in 1939 one year after I was born and is buried in the church yard of the magnificent Anglican Church which Hamilton Brown built in Brown’s Town (and where, as a child, I learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed, and served as an acolyte).” <em>[Emphasis is added].</em></p><p></p><p>There is no doubt that Hamilton Brown was a prominent plantation owner in Jamaica during the first half of the 19th century, owned slaves, and also advocated against the abolition of slavery and sought to downplay the difficult working and living conditions of slaves in Jamaica."</p><p></p><p></p><p>"According to one <a href="https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2019/07/CSUK1817_133578-00140.jpg" target="_blank">document</a>, held by the U.K. National Archives, Brown owned at least 121 slaves in 1826, comprising 74 females and 47 males. In 1817, he <a href="https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2019/07/CSUK1817_133575-00109.jpg" target="_blank">owned</a> at least 124 slaves, made up of 74 females and 50 males. According to <a href="http://archive.is/LgmSi" target="_blank">records</a> held by the “Legacies of British Slave-Ownership” project at University College London (UCL), Brown was at various times the owner, manager, or executor of several dozen plantations and estates on the island of Jamaica.</p><p></p><p>Brown was also a steadfast slavery apologist. In contributions to the colonial House of Assembly, he opposed efforts, emanating from mainland Britain (where slavery was by then widely opposed), to “interfere” in the slave trade in Jamaica. In one 1823 <a href="https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2019/07/The_Observer_Sun__Jan_18__1824_.pdf" target="_blank">speech</a>, he lashed out at the “hypocrisy” and “cloven foot” of William Wilberforce, a British M.P. widely regarded as the hero of the anti-slavery abolitionist movement."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4583478, member: 48469"] From Snopes: [URL='https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kamala-harris-ancestor-slaves/']Did U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris' Ancestor Own Slaves in Jamaica?[/URL] "In his Jamaica Global article, Harris claimed to be descended from the 19th-century planter and slave owner Hamilton Brown. He [URL='http://archive.is/907zm']wrote[/URL]: “My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, [B]descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town[/B]) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (née Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me). The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural ‘produce’ exporter (mostly pimento or all-spice), who died in 1939 one year after I was born and is buried in the church yard of the magnificent Anglican Church which Hamilton Brown built in Brown’s Town (and where, as a child, I learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed, and served as an acolyte).” [I][Emphasis is added].[/I] There is no doubt that Hamilton Brown was a prominent plantation owner in Jamaica during the first half of the 19th century, owned slaves, and also advocated against the abolition of slavery and sought to downplay the difficult working and living conditions of slaves in Jamaica." "According to one [URL='https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2019/07/CSUK1817_133578-00140.jpg']document[/URL], held by the U.K. National Archives, Brown owned at least 121 slaves in 1826, comprising 74 females and 47 males. In 1817, he [URL='https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2019/07/CSUK1817_133575-00109.jpg']owned[/URL] at least 124 slaves, made up of 74 females and 50 males. According to [URL='http://archive.is/LgmSi']records[/URL] held by the “Legacies of British Slave-Ownership” project at University College London (UCL), Brown was at various times the owner, manager, or executor of several dozen plantations and estates on the island of Jamaica. Brown was also a steadfast slavery apologist. In contributions to the colonial House of Assembly, he opposed efforts, emanating from mainland Britain (where slavery was by then widely opposed), to “interfere” in the slave trade in Jamaica. In one 1823 [URL='https://www.snopes.com/uploads/2019/07/The_Observer_Sun__Jan_18__1824_.pdf']speech[/URL], he lashed out at the “hypocrisy” and “cloven foot” of William Wilberforce, a British M.P. widely regarded as the hero of the anti-slavery abolitionist movement." [/QUOTE]
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