VP Kamala Harris a descendant of notorious Irish slave owner in Jamaica

By kevinhughes // 2024-07-26

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Vice President Kamala Harris is reportedly a descendant of a notorious Irish slave owner. The Gateway Pundit reported on her ancestral connection to slavery, citing findings by British historian Stephen McCracken. On the surface, Harris is the daughter of economist and professor Donald Harris (a Black man from Jamaica) and biomedical scientist Shyamala Gopalan (an Indian woman from India's Tamil Nadu state). But McCracken's genealogical research revealed that Harris' four-times-paternal-great-grandfather, Hamilton Brown, was born in Ireland's County Antrim in 1776. Brown's birth year coincided with America declaring its independence from the British. Brown relocated to Jamaica, which at the time was a British colony, where he became an ardent slave owner on the sugar plantations that made the fortitude of the island's economy. He opposed the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire in 1832 and even went back to County Antrim to replace his slaves with workers from his native country. The historian investigated Kamala's roots after it was discovered she has ancestry in County Antrim through Brown. "Hamilton was born in Antrim, just north of Ballymoney, before he moved to Jamaica as a teenager. That's where he became a bookmaker, and then a plantation owner, and therefore a slave owner. His gravestone is in Saint Ann in Jamaica, which lists his birthplace as Antrim," McCracken stated. "He had numerous slaves, in fact Hamilton Brown routinely traveled back and forth to London to protest the abolishment of slavery. He would come back to Ireland to take migrants back to Jamaica to work once slavery was abolished. A quote refers to him as 'making slaves of migrants' in Ireland." McCracken described the vice president's ancestor as a "notorious figure and not nice fellow." He continued: "I actually thought this was going to be a nice story, like [those of former U.S. Presidents] McKinley, Nixon, Jackson, Roosevelt – all of whom have links to Antrim, but it wasn't."

Even Kamala's dad acknowledges the family's links to the slave owner

Kamala's father confirmed their lineage to Brown in an article, writing: "My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown's Town) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (née Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me)," Donald Harris wrote in the article. "The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, landowner and agricultural 'produce' exporter (mostly pimento or allspice), who died in 1939 one year after I was born and is buried in the churchyard 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)." Reuters fact-checkers have said that Kamala is possibly a descendant of both slaves and slave owners. It is not uncommon for African Americans or people of Caribbean heritage to be descended from a slave owner because many slave masters raped their female slaves. In 2019, it was reported that Brown was the owner of at least 121 slaves in 1826. (Related: Kamala Harris' ancestors owned slaves.) According to the Gateway Pundit, Kamala's campaign has heavily concentrated on racial politics – with one example of this being her fight to give reparations to Black Americans who were victims of slavery. So it is interesting to note that Harris herself is a descendant of a slave owner. Follow KamalaHarris.news for more stories about the vice president. Watch this Fox News report about about Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt calling Kamala Harris a dangerously liberal and radical leftist. This video is from the TrendingNews channel on Brighteon.com.

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Even Kamala's dad acknowledges the family's links to the slave owner

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