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Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered Their Pasts QUOTES

1 " Elizabeth [Alexander] is right, of course. It’s a stirring fact that our slave ancestors left behind not documents of property but an incredible amount of cultural wealth. It is a tragedy that we are only able to imagine their individual contributions to that collective wealth- and the worlds they might have made had they been free. "

― Henry Louis Gates Jr. , Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered Their Pasts