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My producers and i worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger arc of african-american history between 1513 and 2013. we covered half a millennium, and it's amazing.
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My Producers And I Worked With These

Henry Louis Gates
My producers and i worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger arc of african-american history between 1513 and 2013. we covered half a millennium, and it's amazing.
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