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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Slavery and California

    UCLA is in possession of the first edition print of Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir that describes how he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The book, of course, is the basis for this year’s Oscar-winning best picture, 12 Years a Slave .

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    By Madeleine Brand • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    UCLA is in possession of the first edition print of Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir that describes how he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The book, of course, is the basis for this year’s Oscar-winning best picture, 12 Years a Slave. The renewed interest in Northup’s work prompted UCLA's Brenda Stevenson to revisit California’s history of slavery, something most Californians know little about.

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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Too Beautiful to Live

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Brenda Stevenson

      professor of history and African American studies at UCLA; author of “The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots”

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    Price of Privacy, HIV Infants & Major Healthcare Changes
    1. 0:00Baby Free of HIV After Treatment
    2. 8:00Not Your Grandfather's Health Care System
    3. 18:14Trouble at the L.A. Fire Department
    4. 26:33The Price for Privacy
    5. 40:38Slavery and CaliforniaYou’re reading this
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