Beyonce digs deeper into her family three.
Beyonce‘s family tree has revealed that her great-great-great grandmother was a slave who married a wealthy white
merchant. The 36-year-old star in a recent interview with Vogue said she has been delving a little deeper into her past
and is amazed at her incredible heritage.
Beyonce said:
“I researched my ancestry recently and learned I come from a slave owner who fell in love with and married a slave.”
Beyoncé’s ancestors lived in Louisiana, in America’s Deep South, where a brutal slave trade was rife for almost 150 years
before it was abolished in 1865. According to the Daily Mail, US records show Beyonce’s great-great-great grandmother
Rosalie Jean Louis, born in 1800, was a black slave who married wealthy white American merchant Joseph Lacey.
In 1830 Rosalie Jean Louis and Joseph Lacey had a daughter named Celestine Josephine Lacey, who was known to the family
as “Tine”.
Tine was employed as the family’s housekeeper but would later become the life-long mistress of a married man of
French descent named Eloi Rene Rosemond Broussard. She had 13 children for him, including Beyonce’s great-grandmother
Odelia.
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