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Ridiculous History

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The Epidemics of San Antonio

We look at the history of forced labor in Santa Barbara, California. The native workers were used to raise thousands of heads of cattle on a farm. Disease swept through the mission's labor force like a plague. We'll explore why a school district in the most diverse place in the world needed a diversity plan and why it went off the rails.

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