Nobody wanted to take me because probably they knew what a slave will be doing, so they need somebody with physical ability, and I was a young child.

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"This award does not belong to me, " said Washington, who plays a slave separated from her husband in "Django Unchained, " as she picked up her first trophy of the evening for her role in the film directed by Quentin Tarantino.

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It is devastating to me that because he died in l997 he never received any compensation for his slave labour.

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