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Is this a clean book in terms of subject matter and contexto?

Jeanne I found the account of the slave Juba very racist and disturbing. The treatment of the possibly transgender Miss Freke was also unnecessarily cruel. T…moreI found the account of the slave Juba very racist and disturbing. The treatment of the possibly transgender Miss Freke was also unnecessarily cruel. The moral messages about how proper women should behave were ridiculous and disturbing. So if you are just worried about language, then I guess that's fine. But unless you are reading it for a sense of how wildly inappropriately women and Black people were described in the early 1800s, the content is disturbing.(less)

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