The enslaved people who built America“GMA” shares an exclusive report from ABC News in collaboration with the 10 Million Names Project on the hidden history of the White House and a historic genealogical breakthrough.
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In a breakthrough discovery, ABC News and American Ancestors, one of the nation’s largest genealogical organizations, found the first confirmed living descendants of an enslaved individual who helped build the White House.
“Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts spoke exclusively with Jackie Smith Sullivan and her daughter Ashley Swain as they learned Swain’s fourth great-grandfather, Calvert Ambush, helped build the North Portico of the White House in the summer of 1829.
“There’s a piece of him that’s inside of me,” Swain said. “To understand whose blood is running through my veins, understand the connection that I have and how we got to where we are today, I think that is amazing.”
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