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Slavery's legacy in West Africa

If a 10-year-old boy in Benin, in West Africa, wants to describe someone he doesn't trust, he's likely to use one of these two roughly translated phrases: "He will sell you and enjoy it" or "He can make you disappear."

Gregory Rodriguez

February 9, 2009

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