Synopsis

Beyond their shared fame as actors, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are linked by a deeper history. Both hail from distinguished American lineages, families rooted in this nation from its very beginnings. But a further connection binds them: both trace their ancestry to staunch abolitionists. Bacon’s Quaker forebears condemned slavery as early as 1780, decades before the prevailing sentiment in the United States. And Sedgwick’s ancestor, Theodore Sedgwick, championed the cause of Elizabeth Freeman