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Smithsonian artifacts: Tin wallet and freedom papers

Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Lonnie G. Bunch III explains to CBS News national correspondent Chip Reid the personal connection that one of the most prized artifacts in the Smithsonian's collection, a freed slave's self-made wallet containing his freedom papers, holds for him.
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