Finding Your Roots - Season 1 Episode 4 Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon
What do Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have in common? They are both famous actors and both descend from prominent American families that have been in this country since its inception. But they share something else, too: both had ancestors who were early opponents of slavery. Bacon's Quaker ancestors repudiated slavery long before the rest of the country, in 1780. And Sedgwick's ancestor Theodore Sedgwick argued the freedom case of Elizabeth Freeman, also known as "Mumbet," in 1781 -- which helped bring an end to slavery in Massachusetts. We reveal this fact - and many others - to Sedgwick and Bacon in this episode, and learn quite a bit about slavery in the North in the process.
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States of America
Studio: PBS
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Cast: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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First Air Date: Mar 24, 2012
Last Air date: Apr 09, 2024
Season: 11 Season
Episode: 107 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 6.20/10 by 12.00 users
Popularity: 73.098
Language: English
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Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.
John Lewis and Cory Booker
Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada
Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon
Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi
Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal
Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons
Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta
John Legend and Wanda Sykes
Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez