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Like many other women of color bloggers, I’m done with “slave ship status.” We are not some “mysterious Sphinx” awaiting our colonial discovery by European imperialists (a la Napoleon). We refuse to be footnoted in the history books as some “mysterious other” or “unknown source.” I love the grace with which Wintley Phipps delivers this message: “When I get to heaven, I want to meet that slave called Unknown!
