Do you guys have a great grandmother that was african?

Question

Do you guys have a great grandmother that was african?

Answer 1

You already asked me this. My great-grandmother was a full blooded African slave. We have a picture of her, but we don't know what tribe or part of Africa she was from. Personally, she looks like she is from Ghana to me.

Answer 2

Perhaps.

But I believe she was part Indian as well

I'm not so sure. Maybe she was a full Indian

Answer 3

If you're asking Americans, an African (by birth) great-grandmother would be pretty unlikely except among recent immigrants or their children.  The African slave trade ended (officially, anyway) well before the Civil War, and voluntary immigration from Africa didn't get really underway until the late twentieth century.  Americans  who were born in Africa, or whose parents were, naturally had African great-grandparents, but if you're asking about Americns of older stock, it's only barely possible.  The last slave ship arrived (illegally) in the US in 1859.  A young girl aboard that ship might have had children as late as the 1890s, so if there was such a person, she just MIGHT have great-grandchldren living.

Answer 4

I have a 6th great-grandmother who was African-American.  That is the only one I know of.

Answer 5

No, one was Croatian, one was Yaqui Indian and the others were Spanish Texans.

Answer 6

No.

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