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just to subsist was a daily struggle. The second important result was the widespread amalgamation of the races. For the weaker, more submissive blacks remained in Asian occupied territory to become slave laborers and slave soldiers and to witness a ruthless sexual traffic in Black women that gave rise to a new breed of Afro Asians. -- Chancellor
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