Submission For Coverage On The PBS Series “Finding Your Roots“

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Written By John Mills

The PBS series, “FINDING YOUR ROOTS” is about to start filming their 10th season. This season, they are selecting one viewer to appear in the series! They are looking for the challenge of a family mystery that their team can solve.

Although I have family mysteries I would like solved, I’m most interested in getting help in answering questions about the life of Prince Mortimer. Below is my submission to the show, requesting that they select Prince Mortimer as their subject to cover.

Here’s hoping we’re selected!!!

John Mills

Originally from San Diego, John Mills is a technologist by trade, but an equity advocate and independent scholar by passion. The descendant of both southern and northern enslaved, John focuses on unearthing little known people and stories of this country’s history in slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. John presents research through the lens and perspective of a descendant, with intent to inspire understanding and empathy, a means to inspire good, God fearing people, now armed with information, to look into whether they may be unwittingly aligning to biases resulting from the reverberating effects of a past time. John is a member of the Connecticut Freedom Trail and a member of the Webb Deane Stevens Museum Council. John is also working with an international team funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in an effort to deliver transformational impact on digital methods in cultural institutions...a means to decolonize museums. Finally, John is working with the state of Connecticut, business leaders and scholars in Middletown, CT to honor and memorialize a former enslaved individual by the name of Prince Mortimer.

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