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Source: New Yorker

4/12/19

The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French Assembly

One panel of the painting is meant to commemorate the abolition of slavery in France, in 1794, but it perpetuates grotesque racist stereotypes.

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The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French Assembly