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Curiosity is unbecoming in the female sex. This girl's curiosity surely comes from your teaching her to read. An ability to read is prejudicial in any woman, in a slave doubly and triply so. It opens them to ideas unsuited to their station in life.

— Manu Herbstein Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2001)

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