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[YKDATRUTH]

My 3rd great grandfather Morris Verdier was in the 2nd South Carolina Volunteers for Colored Infantry and helped free 700 enslaved people with Harriet Tubman at the Combahee River raid. I would have never found this without ancestry.

[judit]

I suggested a while back that you capture some of the unique black history stories in a documentary shown at black history month and your response was "good idea". I hope you will do that, there are so many excellent, moving stories and the response of the guests is pure gold. It breaks this old white woman's heart to hear them, but it must be told in order for people to have pride in their ancestry not think of them as enslaved people anymore to think of them as survivors. Imagine how proud those enslaved people would be to have such talented descendants in their family line because they alone suffered, bore and survived.

[AncestryUS]

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[is_a_verb]

How does Dr Gates not cry in these interviews?

[thomashusted]

Amazing grace how sweet it is, free at last.

[GaiaCarney]

“Yes! I’m Black, I’m proud of it! I’m Black and beautiful” - Rev. MLK Jr. 🥰

[susane]

Ancestry can be full of heroes and the occasional rascal, too. All of their DNA contributed to what I am today.

[frederickjonesel]

0:29 Yeah but what he failed to tell her was that the value of $100.00 in the year 1870, was equivalent to us having around $2, 500.00 today. Come on Henry Louis Gates, you're supposed to explain this to your clients/guests.

[davep.]

For those of us who love Ancestry, but don't watch TV or movies 24 hours a day, it would be nice if you told us WHO ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE!

[sirleroyale]

They all should of said this was all the proof I needed for reparations

[theguy_thatguy]

Heya, regular ppl would like to know too. To bad they can’t afford these tests tho!

[yt]

Prior to ships being able to sail to distant continents, people who were enslaved, were enslaved by their own fellow citizens of the continent they resided on. This includes the African continent, where, according to noted black author, Thomas Sowell, they enslaved their own people as well. He notes in one of that his writing that this happened on the African continent because it was profitable to capture Africans from the center part of the continent and bring them to the coast to sell. Don’t get any idea that ships would sail along the coast and they will jump out of the boat and go capture someone to enslave, quite the opposite. They were waiting with cages, full of them to sell. I suggest you go get in contact with Thomas Sowell and do a story on him. Bet you won’t do it.

[vincentdavis]

all these short videos....makes me wonder if they are $ hungry not educators

[afropuertorican]

NO ONES IS A COLLOR WE ALL COME FROM A TRIBE .IM SHURE NOT BLACK IM CHOCKTAW

[afropuertorican]

😂😂😂You can only find your ancester thew paper trail NOT DNA 😂😂THESE ARE HOLLYWIERD HOLLY LIES TO GO GET YOU TO DO THE TEST AND GIVE YOUR DNA AWAY FOR FREE. GO DO 3 DIFFERENT ONES AND YOULL GET 3 DIFFERENT ANSWERS😂😂😂BEEN THERE DONE THAT.