Finding Your Roots

Education | The Story of Peyton Polly

Clip: Season 1 Episode 9 | 3m 55s

A look at how John Legend’s ancestor, Peyton Polly, attained his freedom.

Aired: 05/13/12 | Rating: NR

FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Eight is a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Media, Kunhardt Films and WETA Washington, D.C. Corporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Eight is provided by Ancestry and Johnson & Johnson. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and by The Inkwell Society and its members Candace King Weir; Lloyd Carney Foundation; Jim and Susan Swartz; Sheryl Sandberg and Tom Bernthal; Anne Wojcicki; Hayward and Kathy Draper; and Nicole Commissiong and Darnell Armstrong. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

More Extras

• Early Stand-Up Experience

  Clip: S1 Ep9 | 1m

• Education | Fighting for Freedom

  Clip: S1 Ep9 | 1m 8s

• Education | Wanda Sykes’s Free Ancestors

  Clip: S1 Ep9 | 6m 47s

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