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had a famous collection of blackamoor figurines and blackamoor jewelry and famously said: “Have I ever showed you my little blackamoor heads from
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has some blackamoor pieces in her extensive collection of black memorabilia that she started in the 1970s. As a child, she witnessed extreme racial oppression in her mother's hometown,
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