Barack Obama

Contrary to President Barack Obama’s claims in his biography, he did indeed descend from an African slave. Ancestry.com did extensive research and discovered Obama’s white-American mother, the late Ann Dunham, descended from a slave.

The slave was brought from Africa to Virginia in the United States, during the 17th century. The name of the slave was John Punch. He was sentenced to indentured servitude for trying to run away. He married a white-American and had mixed raced children. Ann Dunham is one of his descendants.