The TV series is an adaptation of Esi Edugyan's 19th century odyssey, which follows the life of George Washington Black, an enslaved boy who flees the plantation where he was born at 11 years old.

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Tamera Mowry-Housley hears some heavy news about her family in Finding Your Roots and learned that one of her ancestors had been enslaved int he Bahamas, and another was on the Mayflower.