Pushkin.

We start where it began.

In the life of a captive, life never got better. From the

dungeons in Ghana to New England's primary slave port, Boston, the birthplace of

liberty, was also the first colony to legalize slavery. As our nation struggles with the question

of reparations, we look at how this long overdue reckoning is unfolding in the

city that sparked the American Revolution. From G. B. H. News, I I'm Soraya Winter Smith. Join me for what is owed.

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Before we do any talking, I just want you, can you just read the opening scene?

Exterior Apesanuary Day, bubbles, a grizzled muscular 33-year-old chimpanzee lazily knuckle walks across the floor of a large domed enclosure nestled in a verdant Florida woodland.

Superimposition, Center for Great Apes, Wachula Florida, present day.

There are many kinds of kingdoms in this world and many kinds of kings.

Bubbles scoops up a hunk of sweet potato from the ground.

I have known more than most, though all here have served outside these castle walls in some capacity.

It comes upon a cluster of three chimps and acknowledges them.

Butch and Chipper served the Ringling brothers, as did Petunia.

Moving along, he passes two other chimps.

Ellie and her friend Kodwa were were both in a Super Bowl commercial.

A third chimp runs over, waxed Ellie on the head, and then runs off.

That's Jonah.

He starred in a Planet of the Apes film.

Unfortunately, it was the one people didn't enjoy.

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