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Most African slavery had no deeper reason than legal punishment or intertribal warfare, but the Europeans who preached a universal religion, and who had long ago outlawed enslaving fellow Christians, needed justification for a practice so obviously at odds with their ideals of equality.

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Coming from a history of sexual violence, slavery and a lack of bodily autonomy.

But if these queer women can come out of a history of, again, sexual violence, slavery, colonization and all manner of traditional, religious and cultural pitfalls, to reconceptualize what sex and pleasure means to them, then you can do it, too.

Many of the children's books promoted to black boys focus on serious topics, like slavery, civil rights and biographies.

And I've played everything from a vengeful ghost in the time of slavery to Secretary of State in 2004.

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