"Finding Your Roots:" "The View" host Sunny Hostin learns Spanish ancestors owned slaves

"The View" host Sunny Hostin is known for her legal analysis and quick-witted rebuttals on the hot topics morning show. Tuesday episode of "Finding Your Roots" revealed the depth of Hostin's lineage which was traced back to the American Civil War-riddled South in Georgia and also Spain. But the most surprising revelation was that her fourth great-grandfather was a merchant "who was likely involved in the slave trade” in 1800s Spain, and his son, her third great-grandfather, “owned at least one human being," Gates said. "Finding Your Roots" went further back in Hostin's Spanish ancestry and found a link to Spain's colonial history.