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History Detectives | Liberia Letters | PBS

Duration: 03:16
Program: History Detectives #708
Broadcast Date: Aug. 17, 2009

Tukufu interviews local historian Paul Ortiz about why many African Americans moved to Florida in the early 19th century.

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