When Paula Deen Found Out Her Ancestor Owned 35 Slaves . . . (Video)

Reading a post about Savannah's history at Examiner.com, I discovered a link to a video in which Paula Deen, appearing on the finale of NBC's Who Do You Think You Are? last year, discovered that her great-great-grandfather, John Batts, owned 35 slaves.





Deen had denied for years, she says, that her family ever had anything to do with slavery; however, she did not seem particularly shocked

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