Michelle Obama's - Slave Roots - Friendfield Plantation & Grover Cleveland

(CNN Photo of a slave cabin)

CNN has produced Tracking Michelle Obama's slave roots - a video tour of Friendfield Plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina - where Michelle Obama's 2nd Great-Grandfather James Robinson was a slave.

At least one President has been to Friendfield Plantation - in 1894 President Grover Cleveland hunted there. Read the complete news account - Bagged Twenty-Nine - The President's Fine Shooting on the Second Day Out - 19 Dec 1894 - State (SC)

(Illustration of Pres. Grover Cleveland hunting - from his book: Fishing and Shooting Sketches. NY: Outing Pub., 1906.)

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