Roots Less Traveled

  • Premiered: Apr 2020
  • Episodes: 30
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • NBC
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  • Documentary Family History Reality Travel

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Season 3
3x1
The Desire for Freedom
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 02, 2021
A poignant journey starts from an enslaved family's Kentucky roots and their progression to freedom through a monumental court case, an arduous trek across three states and the start of the American dream.
3x2
Finding Freedom in South Jersey
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Air date
Oct 09, 2021
The Truitt family learns that their African American ancestors were farmers and landowners pre-emancipation with the help from an amazing family of Quakers.
3x3
Watch Along: Akin to Ambition
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Air date
Oct 16, 2021
A brother and sister learn their cousin gave the keys to Mexico City to JFK; an uncle and nephew learn about their family's connection to downtown Havana, Cuba; a mother and son learn their African American ancestor owned land before the Civil War.
3x4
Revisit: Family Surprises
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Air date
Oct 23, 2021
An aunt and nephew learn they have family ties to the Brooklyn Bridge; siblings learn their ancestor went from debtors' prison to owning a fleet of whaling ships; a father an daughter learn their ancestor was a Union soldier in the Civil War.
3x5
True Family Bonding
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 20, 2021
Faruq Tauheed hosts as brother and sister Jimmy and Kate seek out their Japanese heritage beginning in 1890s Japan, then in San Francisco, and finally in the farmlands of the Central Valley of California in the 1940s.
3x6
The Price of Freedom
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Air date
Nov 27, 2021
Gwendolyn and her daughter, Gabrielle, discover that her great-grandfather was liberated on one of the most significant days of President Abraham Lincoln's presidency and later became a hero with the U.S. Colored Troops 1st Infantry in the Civil War.
3x7
Revisit: The Power of Purpose
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Air date
Dec 04, 2021
Cousins Patti and Damon learn that their African American ancestors were farmers and landowners pre-Emancipation with help from a family of Quakers, and a family discovers how their ancestors gained freedom through a monumental Kentucky court case.
3x8 Season finale
Revisit: For Country and Family
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Air date
Dec 11, 2021
Siblings seek their Japanese heritage beginning in 1890s Japan in California's farmlands in the 1940s; a mother and daughter discover their ancestor was freed from enslavement by President Lincoln and became a Civil War hero.

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