Family tree on Who Do You Think You Are? has been traced by Lionel Richie and he fought back tears.
The singer found that his civil rights pioneering great-grandfather was buried in a pauper's grave.
He said: 'We take so much for granted. This is about as close to a spiritual awakening as I've ever had in my entire life.'
Former Commodores star Richie said: 'When we first started this journey I was always thinking we might uncover an ancestor like this [a slave owner], but this is unnerving in one respect, and empowering in another. It was an extremely brutal time.'
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