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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s marriage to her husband and family history was dissected by The Washington Post in a Monday article on slavery.
The article was headlined, “Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Ancestors Were Enslaved. Her Husband’s Were Slaves,” describing the ancestral history of bondage and slavery in the families of Justice and her husband, Patrick Jackson.
When John Greene, believed to be an ancestor of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, stepped off a schooner from Trinidad in Charleston, SC, he was immediately enslaved and sent to a plantation, according to family lore. When John Howland , the 10th-great-grandfather of Jackson’s husband, Patrick Jackson, disembarked the Mayflower in Plymouth, Mass., he was given shelter and several acres,” wrote The Washington Post.
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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s marriage to her husband was dissected by The Washington Post in a Monday article on slavery. (United States Supreme Court/Handout via Reuters)
The Post continued to scrutinize the Supreme Court justice and her husband’s family history, drawing parallels between the two that stretch back more than 100 years.
Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of the nation’s nine most powerful legal arbiters, traces her family history through generations of slavery and forced sharecropping. Patrick Jackson, a D.C. gastrointestinal surgeon, counts among his ancestors King Edward I of England, four Mayflower passengers and a signer of the United States Constitution.”
The quoted sheet Christopher C. Child, senior genealogist at the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston, who discovered that Patrick Jackson’s “great-great-great-grandfather Peter Chardon Brooks was the richest man in New England when he died, having made his fortune by ships, including some involved in the slave trade.”
In addition, the article explained, “Patrick grew up outside of Boston, but his maternal grandfather’s ancestors lived in the South. Based on public slave schedules from 1850 and 1860, Child estimates that the family owned about 189 enslaved people at the time.” Any male ancestor of Patrick’s maternal grandfather, over age 21, living in 1850 or 1860, was a slave owner,” Child said. One of his ancestors was also a Confederate soldier.”
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Press Secretary Jeremy Redfern shared the article with his more than 49,000 followers on Monday.
“What an insane premise to discuss someone’s marriage,” he wrote. It’s ‘She was suppressed. He was the oppressor.’ Even though neither of them have anything to do with what their ancestors did more than 150 years ago.”
Some of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s relatives were reportedly unconcerned about her husband’s family’s 100+ year history.
“We had two people who loved each other, and that was enough. You can’t rewrite history. It is what it is,” Ketanji Brown Jackson’s uncle, Calvin Ross, told The Post.
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson arrives for the third day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Washington’s Capitol Hill on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
According to The Post, the judge herself referred to both her and her husband’s backgrounds in 2017. “We were an unlikely pair in many ways,” she said in a 2017 speech“but somehow we found each other.”
According to the article, neither Ketanji nor Patrick Jackson responded to interview requests from The Washington Post.
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Jeffrey Clark is associate editor for Fox News Digital. He has previously served as a speechwriter for a cabinet secretary and as a Fulbright teacher in South Korea. Jeffrey graduated from the University of Iowa in 2019 with a degree in English and History.
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