Overview
What do Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have in common? They are both famous actors and both descend from prominent American families that have been in this country since its inception. But they share something else, too: both had ancestors who were early opponents of slavery. Bacon's Quaker ancestors repudiated slavery long before the rest of the country, in 1780. And Sedgwick's ancestor Theodore Sedgwick argued the freedom case of Elizabeth Freeman, also known as "Mumbet," in 1781 -- which helped bring an end to slavery in Massachusetts. We reveal this fact - and many others - to Sedgwick and Bacon in this episode, and learn quite a bit about slavery in the North in the process.
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1 - 1Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr. March 24, 2012 -
1 - 2John Lewis and Cory Booker March 24, 2012 -
1 - 3Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada April 01, 2012 -
1 - 4Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon April 07, 2012 -
1 - 5Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi April 14, 2012 -
1 - 6Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal April 28, 2012 -
1 - 7Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons April 29, 2012 -
1 - 8Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta May 06, 2012 -
1 - 9John Legend and Wanda Sykes May 13, 2012 -
1 - 10Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez May 20, 2012