Michelle Obama's Ancestors 14-Year-Old Slave Girl and White Slave Owner

From Huff Post:

A genealogist working with the New York Times has discovered a new page in the family history of First Lady Michelle Obama; her great-great-great grandmother was a 14-year-old slave girl named Melvinia impregnated by a white slave owner.

Genealogist Megan Smoleynek reconstructed this long-lost piece of the First Lady's family by using probate records, old photos and legal documents, and also interviews with senior citizens who remember the family of the biracial son born by the young slave, named Dolphus T. Shields (the Shields were the family that owned his young mother). The genealogist said of the discovery: "Out of all of Michelle's roots, it is Melvinia who is screaming to be found."