american actor Edward Norton He has just discovered a curious secret about his family and it seems hard to believe: Pocahontas (in real life) is his twelfth great-grandmother. Apparently, this news is about the confirmation of a rumor that had been circulating in his family for some time and the 53-year-old actor wanted to unravel it by contacting the historian and presenter Henry Louis Gates Jr..
“You have a direct paper trail, no question, with your 12th great-grandmother and great-grandfather, john rolfe Y Pocahontas”, he told the actor during a genealogy history program on the chain pbscalled Finding Your Roots. rolfe was a Virginia settler, who lived during the time of William Shakespeare. He married the Pocahontas from real life, who at the time was the daughter of a Native American chief.
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All this happened in the seventeenth century, as the couple was together from April 5, 1614 in Jamestown, Virginia until the death of Pocahontas in Gravesend, England, separated them just three years later. But still they had children who became ancestors of the well-known Hollywood actor.
Pocahontas died because he saved the life of the captain john smith, a settler from England who welcomed along with other Englishmen in the United States. She died in her place, for she gave her life for him. “It makes you realize that you are a small part of the history of humanity,” he expressed during the first episode of the show’s ninth season.
Gates Jr. also informed the actor of The fight Club that another of his ancestors was the owner of a couple of slaves with five daughters under 10 years of age. “These things are uncomfortable. And you should feel uncomfortable with them, ”said the actor when he found out about this.
“It is not a judgment on you in your own life, but it is a judgment on the history of this country and you have to recognize it first of all and then you have to face it (…) when you read ‘eight-year slave’, you They make you want to die,” he said. (AND)
Source: Eluniverso
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