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# We Come from People
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/finding-your-roots/episode/finding-your-roots-we-come-people/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:11:42.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-20T14:26:34.000Z
- Description: Trace the roots of Nas, Angela Bassett and Valerie Jarrett into the heart of slavery.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Finding Your Roots, Season 2, Episode 6, #ZZZ_Episode_09e9663b-5fe1-4acf-a295-a90ab6877ab3, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_855aaf88-37bb-4949-872a-c4646a613145, #v1.16

Trace three guests’ roots into the heart of slavery, revealing that there is no singular narrative and challenging preconceptions of an era that shaped our nation’s sense of itself. Nas discovers a web of his slave ancestors' intimate relationship with their slave master; Angela Bassett meets ancestors whose slave family tragedy is rivaled only by a triumphant emancipation story