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    1. [Q-R] Finding Your Roots features Kevin Bacon's Quaker connections
    2. Christopher Densmore
    3. Subject: Finding Your Roots: Kevin Bacon and Henry Lewis Gates Jr. on PBS on Sunday, April 8, 2012 The "Finding Your Roots" program on PBS hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. featuring Kevin Bacon and Kira Sedgwick will be shown on WHYY (Channel 12) in the Philadelphia area on Sunday, April 8, at 8 p.m. Both discover that they have ancestors that opposed slavery. Bacon's Quaker fore bearers rejected slavery in 1780; and a Sedgwick ancestor argued and won the 1781 Mumbat case, which helped end slavery in Massachusetts. Research on Bacon's Quaker and anti-slavery ancestors was done at Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and documents from FHL will be featured in the program. Chris Densmore, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

    04/06/2012 04:39:40