Finding Your Roots
Queen Latifah Discovers Ancestor’s Emancipation Document
Queen Latifah meets the woman that freed her ancestors from slavery.
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Finding Your Roots
Queen Latifah Discovers Ancestor’s Emancipation Document
Clip: Season 6 Episode 4 | 2m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
Queen Latifah meets the woman that freed her ancestors from slavery.
In this moving moment, Queen Latifah meets the woman that freed her ancestors from slavery. “People still think that one person can’t make a difference. One person made a difference to my whole entire family line.”
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Queen Latifah Discovers Ancestor’s Emancipation Document
Clip: Season 6 Episode 4 | 2m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
In this moving moment, Queen Latifah meets the woman that freed her ancestors from slavery. “People still think that one person can’t make a difference. One person made a difference to my whole entire family line.”
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