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Dwight K Lewis Jr. featured on the Smithsonian Channel's One Thousand Years of Slavery

March 28, 2022
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Assistant Professor Dwight K. Lewis Jr. is featured in episode 2 of the Smithsonian Channel's new docuseries One Thousand Years of Slavery. Lewis discusses his research on Anton Wilhelm Amo, the first African to earn a doctorate from a European University.

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