Vice President Kamala Harris descended from an infamous Irish slave owner who actively worked against abolition.
The presidential hopeful’s paternal great-grandmother, Christiana Brown, is a descendant of Hamilton Brown, “who is on the record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town, a town in Jamaica,” Harris’ father, Stanford economist Donald Harris, wrote in the Jamaica Globe in 2019.
Donald Harris, 85, was born in Brown’s Town, the vice president noted in her 2019 book, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.”
Hamilton Brown was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, in 1776, according to the University College London’s Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery.
He moved to the British colony of Jamaica when he was a teenager and later became a sugar plantation owner.
“Hamilton Brown was a notorious figure and not a nice fellow,” historian Stephen McCracken told the Belfast Telegraph on Tuesday.
Looks like the apple didn’t dall far from the tree