Finding Your Roots

E01▶

Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.

Mar 24, 2012 · 1h 0m

E02▶

John Lewis and Cory Booker

Mar 24, 2012 · 1h 0m

E03▶

Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada

Apr 1, 2012 · 1h 0m

E04Playing

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

Apr 7, 2012 · 1h 0m

E05▶

Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi

Apr 14, 2012 · 1h 0m

E06▶

Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal

Apr 28, 2012 · 1h 0m

E07▶

Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons

Apr 29, 2012 · 1h 0m

E08▶

Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta

May 6, 2012 · 1h 0m

E09▶

John Legend and Wanda Sykes

May 13, 2012 · 1h 0m

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Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez

May 20, 2012 · 1h 0m

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.