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Tuesday Trivia: In 1773, King Louis XV gave his favorite courtesan a Bengali slave child named Zamor, whom she treated essentially as an exotic pet. Oops, because in 1792 Zamor joined the French Revolutionaries and got the countess beheaded. Tell me about the long history of Europeans of color!

by /u/sunagainstgold in /r/AskHistorians

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