The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
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- Author's profession: Critic
- Nationality: american
- Born: September 16, 1950
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At the age of fifteen he had bought off a twopenny stall in the market a duo-decimo book of recipes, gossip, and homilies, printed in 1605. His stepmother, able to read figures, had screamed at the sight of it when he had proudly brought it home. 1605 was 'the olden days', meaning Henry VIII, the executioner's axe, and the Great Plague. She thrust the book into the kitchen fire with the tongs, yelling that it must be seething with lethal germs. A limited, though live, sense of history. And...
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