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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Barbara Christian

Born: December 12, 1943
Died: June 25, 2000 (aged 56)
Bio: Barbara Christian was an author and professor of African-American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Among several books, and over 100 published articles, Christian was most well known for the 1980 study Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition.
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