Maori Battalion survivors of action in Greece, performing a haka in Helwan, Egypt for the King of Greece, June 1941. From left to right, the four men in the foreground are John Manuel, Maaka White, Te Kooti Reihana, and Rangi Henderson.
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Maori Battalion survivors of action in Greece, performing a haka in Helwan, Egypt for the King of Greece, June 1941. From left to right, the four men in the foreground are John Manuel, Maaka White, Te Kooti Reihana, and Rangi Henderson.

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Marcus Garvey, August 1924.
Source: Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection,

Marcus Garvey, August 1924.

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Lee Miller, Portrait of Space, Egypt, 1937.
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Lee Miller, Portrait of Space, Egypt, 1937.

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Gustave Le Gray, Camp de Châlons: Zouaves, Châlons-sur-Marne, France, 1857.
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Gustave Le Gray, Camp de Châlons: Zouaves, Châlons-sur-Marne, France, 1857.

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Roger Fenton, Egyptian Dancing Girl, 1858.
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Roger Fenton, Egyptian Dancing Girl, 1858.

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 E.M. Santos, Female convicts chained together by neck rings, working on a road in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1890-1927.
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E.M. Santos, Female convicts chained together by neck rings, working on a road in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1890-1927.

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An Arab master’s punishment for a slight offence: A slave boy in Zanzibar, ca. 1890.
Source: National Maritime Museum, London

An Arab master’s punishment for a slight offence: A slave boy in Zanzibar, ca. 1890.

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Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, ca. 1923.

Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, ca. 1923.

African pygmies and a European explorer, ca. 1900.

African pygmies and a European explorer, ca. 1900.

Gustave Le Gray, Zouave Storyteller, France, 1857.
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Gustave Le Gray, Zouave Storyteller, France, 1857.

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