Russell Wilson got an eye-opening history lesson during a visit to his Virginia hometown over the weekend.
The Seahawks quarterback on Saturday attended the Richmond Forum, where he made an appearance with renown historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. Gates. After conducting thorough research, the host of the PBS show "Finding Your Roots" revealed to Wilson in front of a crowd of 4,500 that his ancestry included at least one English king.
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"I knew it," Wilson said, via the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "Some of our ancestors may have grown up as slaves.