GEORGETOWN, S.C.—Tiny wooden cabins line the dirt road once known as Slave Street as it winds its way through Friendfield Plantation. More than 200 slaves lived in the whitewashed shacks in the early ...

Tiny wooden cabins line the dirt road once known as Slave Street as it winds through Friendfield Plantation. More than 200 slaves lived in the whitewashed shacks in the early 1800s, and some of their ...

GEORGETOWN, SC (CNN) - Humid, wet, mosquito-infested and overgrown, it was a sprawling South Carolina rice plantation in the 1800s. It's also where Michelle Obama's family believes her great great ...

GEORGETOWN, S.C. — Tiny wooden cabins line the dirt road once known as Slave Street as it winds its way through Friendfield Plantation. More than 200 slaves lived in the white-washed shacks in the ...

A restored slave cabin at the Friendfield Plantation in Georgetown, S.C. Historical records show that James Robinson was a slave on the plantation and is a great-great-grandfather of Michelle Obama.

Before long, the Friendfield plantation was immensely rich, supplying America with half its rice. Carrie does not know precisely how Jim came to live there. But he fathered two sons, Gabriel – ...

Census records show each generation of Robinsons became more educated than the last, with Michelle Obama eventually earning degrees from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. Her older brother, ...