Sentence examples for slave ancestry from inspiring English sources

Many of their descendants did the same, leaving their slave ancestry behind.

As befits someone who has climbed the ladder from slave ancestry, he likes to refer to himself as middle class.

Clementine Reuben was the daughter of Mary Antoinette Adams, who was of Virginian slave ancestry, and Janvier Reuben, whose father was Irish and whose mother was Native American.

In his dozen years of research and writing so far -- with no publication date set -- Mr. Jones, co-author of an earlier study of New Orleans music, has dug deep into local property archives to trace Armstrong's slave ancestry back to 1818.

President Barack Obama is visiting the island with his wife Michelle, who has slave ancestry, and his two daughters.

Like many, she has slave-owner ancestry as well as African, and is connected, she says, to generals on opposite sides in the civil war.

Recently we heard quite a bit about Ben Affleck's apology for asking that his slave-owning ancestry be hidden from public view when presented on PBS's "Finding Your Roots," hosted by Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates.

During the first few decades of Kentucky's statehood, there also was a large black population, mostly slaves of African ancestry, though the proportion decreased after the state legislature abolished the importation of slaves for resale in 1833.

For 95 years, the national identity for Mexico was "mestizaje," a term that only acknowledges interracial descendants of colonizers and indigenous communities, and ignores the role of African slaves in Mexican ancestry.

There was a woman who had slave owners in her ancestry, and she had a strong desire to be an activist.

But many African-Americans in Florence trace their ancestry to slaves who worked in the nearby soybean and cotton fields.