Finding Us | Official Trailer
Preview: Season 9 Episode 903 | 11sVideo has Closed Captions
Families torn apart by Georgetown’s sale of enslaved people reunite six generations later.
Georgetown University sold hundreds of enslaved people to stave off bankruptcy, scattering families across the South, never to see each other again. With the help of DNA databases, their descendants are reconnecting six generations later. “Finding Us” is a portrait of four descendants who are using their unique talents to regrow the family trees felled nearly two centuries ago.
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Support for Reel South is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Center for Asian American Media and by SouthArts.
Finding Us | Official Trailer
Preview: Season 9 Episode 903 | 11sVideo has Closed Captions
Georgetown University sold hundreds of enslaved people to stave off bankruptcy, scattering families across the South, never to see each other again. With the help of DNA databases, their descendants are reconnecting six generations later. “Finding Us” is a portrait of four descendants who are using their unique talents to regrow the family trees felled nearly two centuries ago.
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- This country was built on slavery.
What I see is a dark history, but it was written out of narratives.
[ambient music]
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Kevin and Negest are descendants of enslaved people sold by Georgetown University. (1m 45s)
Support for Reel South is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Center for Asian American Media and by SouthArts.