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She traded a life of privilege for one spent fighting for justice on both literal and political battlefields so tirelessly that even exiling her five times couldn't keep her down.
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The ghost of a tragically-murdered young child come back to haunt her mother in post-slavery America.
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When her husband was unjustly executed, this French noblewoman-turned-pirate became the terror of France.
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