ALEX Scott becomes emotional on Who Do You Think You Are? when she learns her great grandfather owned 26 slaves. The BBC pundit, 37, is horrified to find her 4x great grandfather Robert Francis Coombs was a slave owner with over two dozen people captive at his huge property in Jamaica.
The Football Focus host is shown records of those enslaved to Robert between 1817 and 1832 in an upcoming episode of the BBC documentary show.
A stunned Alex cannot believe what she is seeing, and asks: "In my family line - this doesn’t sound right coming out of my mouth - but Robert Francis Coombs owned people?" The historian explains Coombs received preferential treatment for being light-skinned, and it wasn't unusual for free black people to own slaves at.
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