Slavery
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After the Civil War in the 1800s, Reconstruction failed to deliver the equality that the end of
slavery
should have heralded, so young people moved to the North and the West to escape discriminatory Jim Crow policies.
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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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