Finding Your Roots

So, this is my great, great grandfather? -

Henry

Yeah. He's being bequeathed from one white person to another - Another white person. Like you leave a piano. Or car or something. What's it like to see that? I'm speechless. I have no words to articulate what I feel now. (Henry assents) It's just suddenly, but it's extraordinary to realize this history. That it is this part of my history. Yes, it's one thing in the abstract to know that our family were objects, Objects. Objects. Property. -

Henry

but to see them willed as property. - It's willed as property. It's amazing. - Yeah. Have you thought much about your ancestors, who were enslaved, what their experience was like? I've often thought about them and I've thought that, I've thought about maybe imagine my great-grandmother in slavery or maybe not, but I just know that they were wear of being Black and indentured. But you know? It was just the way the world was and the way the world is, and it's a sad thing.