| "Curb Your Enthusiasm" actor/comedian Larry David said he was taken aback by discovering ancestors who owned slaves in antebellum Alabama, according to a story by USA Today. Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- the Harvard professor and host of PBS' "Finding Your Roots" -- said he's been trying to get David on his show for years, and he'll finally appear on tonight's season premier. The show traces the ancestral roots of celebrities. Those roots had more than one interesting surprise for David. An arm of his family apparently settled in what is now the Birmingham area during the 1840s. His great-grandfather owned two slaves and fought for the Confederacy. |
Poster Comment:
This Gates is the same Gates from 0bama's early "beer summit".
And his show on PBS earlier exposed the slaveowner ancestry of Ben Affleck who had three different slaveowners around the Confederacy in his family tree.
DailyMail.co.uk: link
| Ben Affleck has at least three ancestors who owned slaves including a wealthy landowner who bought a young boy who he appears to have set to work in his tanning business. The Batman star's distant family can be traced to Connecticut and in 1728 they paid 80 pounds for a slave called Tobe who they kept until he was grown up. The bill of sale refers to Tobe as a 'negro boy' which the previous owner 'sold as my proper estate'. Tobe's owner was called Nathaniel Stanley and was known as a smart man of 'respected piety and evangelical sentiments' - but that did not stop him keeping slaves. Affleck's other slave owning ancestors were a man in Georgia and an Irish farmer from New Jersey who owned eight slaves. None of these details were shown in the episode of Finding Your Roots which featured Affleck after host Henry Louis Gates Jr edited them out, leaked Sony emails have revealed. . . . |
Toward the end, they mention Anderson Cooper's ancestor who owned a slave who murdered him. The slave was promptly hanged.
Funny how many of these raging libs have slaveowners in their family trees that they don't want us to know about.
