{"id":255,"date":"2009-07-17T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2024-08-09T12:40:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:40:45","slug":"michelle-obamas-slave-roots-friendfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/michelle-obamas-slave-roots-friendfield.html","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama’s – Slave Roots – Friendfield Plantation & Grover Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"
(CNN Photo of a slave cabin)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

\"CNN<\/a>CNN has produced Tracking Michelle Obama’s slave roots<\/a> <\/em>– a video tour of Friendfield Plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina – where Michelle Obama’s 2nd Great-Grandfather James Robinson was a slave.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

At least one President has been to Friendfield Plantation – in 1894 President Grover Cleveland hunted there. <\/strong><\/span>Read the complete news account – Bagged Twenty-Nine – The President’s Fine Shooting on the Second Day Out – 19 Dec 1894 – State (SC)<\/a> <\/em><\/span><\/strong>
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\n(Illustration of Pres. Grover Cleveland hunting – from his book: Fishing and Shooting Sketches. NY: Outing Pub., 1906.)<\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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(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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[517,5280,1167,599,516,1129,1661,1208,1758,600,5320,1674,1829,5351,1874,5366,27,530,817,1689,601,5402,636,573,5451],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-american-revolution","tag-book","tag-cleveland","tag-cnn","tag-dar","tag-family","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-georgetown","tag-grandfather","tag-grover-cleveland","tag-heritage","tag-id","tag-in","tag-james","tag-ms","tag-news","tag-newspapers","tag-ny","tag-old-newspapers","tag-president","tag-president-grover-cleveland","tag-robinson","tag-sc","tag-south-carolina","tag-video"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99800,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/99800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}