Henry Louis Gates
Cast Position #1
Finding Your Roots Episode 1.04 Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon
Episode Premiere
April 7, 2012
Genre
Documentary
Production Company
Kunhardt McGee Productions
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/
Episode Premiere
April 7, 2012
Genre
Documentary
Period
2012 -
Production Co
Kunhardt McGee Productions
Distributor
PBS
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/
Main Cast
- Henry Louis Gates
- Jr.
Additional Cast
- Kevin Bacon
- Kyra Sedgwick
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.
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