When did Finding Your Roots Season 1 Episode 9 air?
Finding Your Roots Season 1 Episode 9 aired on May 13, 2012 at 8 PM ET.
Finding Your Roots
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
Season 1 · Episode 9
John Legend and Wanda Sykes
Aired May 13, 2012at 8PM·1h
Most African Americans struggle to trace their ancestors beyond Emancipation; slavery erased names and family ties with brutal efficiency. But what about the descendants of the handful of free black people who evaded bondage during that terrible time? Musician John Legend and comedian Wanda Sykes discover the extraordinary stories of the free black ancestors they never knew about, while Professor Gates himself and his 98-year-old friend Margarett Cooper delve into the mysteries shrouding the free people of color in their family trees.
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How long is Finding Your Roots Season 1 Episode 9?
This episode runs for approximately 60 minutes.
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