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Who Do You Think You Are: Naomie Harris (Grenadian, Guyanese, & Jamaican) plus 48% Nigerian

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The episode can't be uploaded on here but here is a link if you want to watch it:

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* warning, I did not proof read *

- State she never ever was interested in her family history until her mom got her a DNA kit for her birthday showing she's 48% Nigerian * she didn't say what her full results are *

Her father side:

- Her dad is from Trinidad. Harris didn't know much about his side because he wasn't in her life with the exception of limited communication. Harris visit him for the show learning from him her paternal grandmother is from Guyana and her paternal grandfather is from Grenada which they both moved to Trinidad during their childhood.

- Learned her father side lived within walking distance of her yet they never met. * I could tell that hurt her *

- She expected to feel more when being shown her paternal grandmother and grandfather for the first time but said she felt like she was being shown strangers.

- Went to Trinidad to met her uncle for the first time to learn more about her paternal side. Learn through her paternal grandfather side her great-great grandfather (Charles) is Irish and was married to an African Grenadian.

- Happy she was on her way to Grenada for the first time because she doesn't know anything about the country. Learned there Charles was an overseer in 1897 and later he became the town warden. Harris stated him being an overseer isn't problematic because slavery was over and the workers were being paid :sidefrown.

- Harris met with a historian to learn more about her white side. Learned her 4x grandfather is from Somerset, England and became a slaver overseer in Grenada. In 1849, which is after slaver had already ended, he was the manager on a sugar plantation that was still receiving people from Africa under the disguise of "liberated Africans" and were enslaving them under a "3 year paid contract" which they could not leave. Harris pointed out that would mean slavery didn't end when they claim it did.

- Harris stated she doesn't feel connected to her father's ancestors and wonder when she start exploring her mom side will she feel a deeper connection.

Her mother side:

- Her mom is Jamaican.

- Been to Jamaica plenty of times and feel at home while she's there.

- Was close with her grandfather.

- Harris is her mom surname. While reading her maternal grandfather birth certificate she noticed his father name is left blank. Soon after she learned she is not really a Harris and that it is the last name of her maternal grandfather's step-father last name (his first name is Ralph). The birth certificated revealed her maternal great grandmother was a dress maker. Her maternal surname is Tulloch.

- Harris went to visit her great grandmother close friend. Harris tried pressing the friend over rather or not her great grandmother discussed with the friend that Ralph isn't the real father of Harris's grandfather. The friend said no, they never discussed that.

- Harris started crying while discussing her grandfather. She later realized he was the only father figure in her life and that's the reason he mean much to her.

- Harris learned the name of many of her maternal great grandmother side and that her siblings experienced much death most of which that come along with being poor. Her great grandmother brother, Henry, went to a school ran by a racist and he wanted out of the school. They had the children at the school doing labor work. Her maternal great-great grandmother died in a corporation poor house.

- Harris is shown a baptism document about her maternal great-great grandparent with her great-great-great grandmother and grandfather name on it too. Harris family tree was traced back to her maternal great-great-great-great grandfather (Henry).

- Harris visited the land her family were enslaved on. It was likely her enslaved 4x great grandfather Henry started working the field at the age of 6. Harris learned Henry's mother, her 5x great grandmother, came from Africa and his father, her 5x great grandfather, is a free biracial. They figured her own was okay with the relationship. Harris guessed 6 years later when slavery ended her 5x great grandmother married her 5x great grandfather.
 

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A lot of the 100 percent people who’re from Diaspora. I have seen have mostly been from Jamaica, Tobago, Guyana, Haiti and Barbados.

Wouldn’t be shocked if she was 100 percent or very close.
 

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A lot of the 100 percent people who’re from Diaspora. I have seen have mostly been from Jamaica, Tobago, Guyana, Haiti and Barbados.

Wouldn’t be shocked if she was 100 percent or very close.

yeah that's because there isn't as much white people here and mixing is rare so we've been able to retain our blackness.
 

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LOL, it says her Irish ancestor is okay because slavery was over but in the next sentence it says it probably wasn't really over.
 

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LOL, it says her Irish ancestor is okay because slavery was over but in the next sentence it says it probably wasn't really over.
Context is key. It wasn't in the next sentence. It is at the next scene she said that after learning for the first time slavery still continued after it was claimed to have ended.
 

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