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Almost two centuries before there was a man named Obama in the White House, there was a man named Obama shackled in the bowels of a slave ship. There is no proof that the unidentified Obama has ties to President Barack Obama. All they share is a name. But that is exactly the commonality that Emory University researchers hope to build upon as they delve into the origins of Africans who were taken up and sold.
They have built an online database around those names, and welcome input from people who may share a name that’s in the database, or have such names as part of their family lore.
http://articles.boston.com/2011-12-29/news/30569798_1_original-african-names-david-eltis-slave-trade
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