Ms Harris is the daughter of Donald J Harris, who was born in Jamaica, and Shyamala Gopalan Harris from India. Brown emigrated to Jamaica, then a British colony, and became an enthusiastic slave owner on the sugar plantations that were the mainstay of the island’s economy. The grave of Hamilton Brown in Jamaica shows that he was born in Antrim in 1776 and died in Jamaica. One article on the internet suggests that Kamala Harris’s great-great-great grandmother Mary Melvina may have married a different Hamilton Brown who was not related to the first one. The memorial to Hamilton Brown reads: ‘Sacred to the memory of HAMILTON BROWN Esq.

Source: The Irish Times July 24, 2024 05:16 UTC