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Lena Waithe Discovers Her First Free, Post-Slavery Ancestor

Season 8 Episode 7

About the Episode

“I’m filled with gratitude for all of these amazing human beings who lived and worked and raised their children and fought, and survived.” Lena Waithe after reading the birth record of her great-great grandfather, the first person on her family tree to be born free after the abolishment of slavery.

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