The Washington Post has revealed that the husband of the first black female Supreme Court justice is descended from a slave owner.
Washington Post analyzed The article described the family history of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and her husband, surgeon Patrick Jackson. published Monday.The story highlighted the solemn point difference in their lives and the lives of their ancestors. (Related: Ketanji Brown Jackson Brings Up Racism in Free Speech Oral Debate: ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’)
American history is certainly complicated.
No sane person would ever say that a husband is responsible for his ancestors. he is not one of them. He married the man he loved, not the color of his skin.
Even those who are enlightened will not associate this couple with history. It would be unreasonable.https://t.co/cWy13OgMCy
— Eli Steele (@Hebro_Steele) June 20, 2023
“Thus, two newcomers to America were cast into racially predetermined roles. Today, as new genealogical research shows, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Patrick Jackson share a common historical theme. enslaved people. His ancestors owned them, and so did hers,” the Post reported.
According to the paper, Patrick Jackson’s great-grandfather Peter Chardon Brooks “made his fortune in insurance for ships, including those involved in the slave trade, and was the richest man in New England when he died.”
Genealogist Christopher C. Child of the New England Historical Genealogy Society told the Post that records show that Patrick Jackson’s family owned 189 people between 1850 and 1860.
“All of Patrick’s maternal grandfather’s male ancestors over the age of 21 who lived in 1850 or 1860 were slave owners,” Child said.
However, some of Patrick Jackson’s ancestors were against slavery.
According to another ancestor, “The Memoirs of Dr. James Jackson,” one of his ancestors, Patrick Tracy, freed the slave laborer Apropos and his wife. When Tracy died, he is said to have left Apropos his house and £6 a year. He also reportedly told his children to help Apropos live a comfortable life.
Rachel Alexander, Arizona Sun-Times reporter, shared an article The Jackson family posted a comment on Twitter saying it was the basis for their opposition to slave reparations.
“This is the epitome of why reparations are silly, and at the moment we’re very heterosexual and mixed. Many black-looking people, for example, are half black. Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Her ancestors were enslaved, her husband was a slave,” he wrote.
