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The queen who turned a servant into a chair

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Power moves don't get much colder than using a human being as living furniture. When the Portuguese governor refused to offer Queen Nzinga a chair during 1622 peace negotiations, she wasn't about to stand like a peasant. She signaled a servant to drop to all fours and comfortably sat on his back for the entire meeting, proving to the colonialists exactly who held the real power in the room.

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