Henry Louis Gates Jr. on 'Finding Your Roots'
Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
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Morgan Freeman's Family Tricks
"We took him on a whole different ride to show we took him back to slavery. There was a white man, a slave owner, who kept two families," she says. "He had a white family and then with his slave Eliza, he had 10 children." When the Civil War ended, this, the white overseer and this black woman lived the rest of their lives together illegally, defying the laws against misseggination,. And I showed Morgan their headstones next to each other in this colored cemetery".
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