Finding Your Roots
Anna Deavere Smith's Underground Railroad Connection
Anna Deavere Smith finds her courageous ancestor, a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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Finding Your Roots
Anna Deavere Smith's Underground Railroad Connection
Clip: Season 2 Episode 3 | 2m 35sVideo has Closed Captions
Anna Deavere Smith finds her courageous ancestor, a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Actress, playwright, and professor learns of her courageous ancestor, a conductor along the Underground Railroad. With the help of the Finding Your Roots research team, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was able to relay details about this inspirational hero, a freed slave risked his life to help others on the path to freedom.
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Corporate support for Season 11 of FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. is provided by Gilead Sciences, Inc., Ancestry® and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by...
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Finding Your Roots
Anna Deavere Smith's Underground Railroad Connection
Clip: Season 2 Episode 3 | 2m 35sVideo has Closed Captions
Actress, playwright, and professor learns of her courageous ancestor, a conductor along the Underground Railroad. With the help of the Finding Your Roots research team, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was able to relay details about this inspirational hero, a freed slave risked his life to help others on the path to freedom.
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