New York: A Melting Pot of Resilience (with Scott Pratt) | Episode 108
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Scott Pratt shares his transformative journey of discovering his ancestry and connection to enslaved people through a letter.
What would you do if a single letter revealed that everything you thought you knew about your family was only half the story? Scott Pratt walked into a historic Brooklyn church as part of Ancestry's powerful documentary Railroad Ties expecting to find some connection to his Scottish colonial roots. Instead he discovered that he's a descendant of enslaved people who escaped to freedom on the Underground Railroad. In this deeply moving conversation, Scott and I trace the extraordinary arc of hi...
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