article_snippet.sent: After appearing on Finding Your Roots Your Roots and learning one of Ben Affleck 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.com, a request the producers ultimately agreed to.
article_snippet.sent: This enabled Ben Affleck to hide the identity of Ben Affleck ancestor, named today by The Sun as James McGuire, who kept eight slaves on Ben Affleck farm in Trenton in New Jersey in the 1840s.
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 Ben Affleck. '
article_snippet.sent: Ben Affleck went on to say Ben Affleck lobbied for information about a slave-owning relative to be withheld after filming the episode. '
article_snippet.sent: Finding Your Roots is a show where you voluntarily provide a great deal of information about your family, making you quite vulnerable,' Ben Affleck explained. '
article_snippet.sent: US genealogist Debra Fleming is said to have helped trace Ben Affleck's family tree back to McGuire, a relative of US genealogist Debra Fleming father Timothy.
article_snippet.sent: Ben Affleck is just one of the many celebrities once again under fire after WikiLeaks sorted all the hacked Sony emails into a system that makes the many celebrities easier for the public to search.
article_snippet.sent: Finding Your Roots is a show where you voluntarily provide a great deal of information about your family, making you quite vulnerable.