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which he tried to publish as his own work. In 1945, she won a permanent injunction against
Watkins, Dr. Thomas E. Jones, president of the university, and Fisk University prohibiting them from publishing or receiving any financial rewards from any publication of her work. Massaquoi felt that she had
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wrote that he had encouraged her to write the "story of her life as a tribal child, in contact with and reaction to
European culture as represented in Monrovia and the mission school, life and education in Germany and Switzerland; life in America". Massaquoi had also collaborated with Watkins on a
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Covering 274 pages and 19 chapters, the book is divided into three main sections. The first covers the period from her birth until 1922 when she spent her childhood years in Sierra Leone and
Liberia, the second describes her education in Switzerland and Germany, where as a young African woman she
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99:, Liberia, with her daughter Vivian Seton and her grandchildren, Massaquoi suffered a stroke. This pressed Seton into having the 700 pages of her mother's unpublished autobiography microfilmed, calling on the assistance of colleagues at the
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Abraham, a historian at Virginia State University, Massaquoi's daughter, Vivian Seton, and Tuchscherer, edited Massaquoi's accounts of her early experiences in Germany and the United States. The book,
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