David Wilson, meet David Wilson.

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Three years ago, David Wilson began making a documentary about race and his search for his family's history. Along the way, he made a discovery that startled him: He found a living descendant of the family that had owned his family as slaves--and his name was also David Wilson. So Wilson, a 31-year-old Brooklynite, took a camera and headed south to North Carolina, where his slave ancestors worked on a tobacco plantation, and where the other David Wilson still lives. In the film, Meeting David Wilson, which will be shown on MSNBC on April 11, he finds the grave of his great-grandfather...