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In this clip from Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates Jr. walks Questlove through some painful moments from his family's past.

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Behind the Discoveries of Finding Your Roots • 4m 54s

Pharrell Williams gets an intimate glimpse of his family history as he reads the actual words of his great-great-great Aunt, who endured slavery near the Tar River in North Carolina.

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