article_snippet.sent: Ben Affleck today finally admitted the name of the slave ancestor Ben Affleck had censored from Ben Affleck past.
article_snippet.sent: The Oscar-winning actor posted on social media that a 'Benjamin Cole' of Georgia, an ancestor on Ben Affleck mother's side, was the relative dropped from the PBS show about Ben Affleck family history.
article_snippet.sent: Ben Affleck name was Benjamin Cole - lived in Georgia on my Mom's side about six generations back.'
article_snippet.sent: Close: Ben Affleck and Ben Affleck former Freedom Rider mother Chris Anne, seen last October in Los Angeles .
article_snippet.sent: Ben Affleck mother, Chris Anne, had featured in the show, not because her ancestor benefited from indenture, but because her had been a Freedom Rider.
article_snippet.sent: After appearing on Finding Your Roots and learning one of his ancestors was a slave owner, Ben Affleck pushed the network to leave that information out of the program that information was first revealed by DailyMail Online, a request the producers ultimately agreed to.
article_snippet.sent: However, the admission suggests Ben Affleck may have more than one slave-owning ancestor.
article_snippet.sent: After an exhaustive search of my ancestry for Finding Your Roots, it was discovered that one of my distant relatives was an owner of slaves,' wrote Affleck. '
article_snippet.sent: US genealogist Debra Fleming is said to have helped trace Affleck's family tree back to McGuire, a relative of US genealogist Debra Fleming father Timothy.
article_snippet.sent: On the broader points, it seems to me that any serious program about genealogy, especially dealing with celebrities, cannot leave out a slave-owning ancestor,' Ben Affleck said. '...
highlights_snippet.sent: Ben Affleck has revealed name of the slave-owning ancestor which Ben Affleck got PBS to cut from Finding My Roots .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Ben Affleck says Ben Affleck Freedom Rider mother Chris Anne was descended from Benjamin Cole, a Georgia slave-owner 'about six generations' ago .
  