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Frederick Douglass, too, was described by his friend James McCune Smith — the first African American to earn a medical degree — as having “passed through every gradation of rank comprised in our national make-up, and bears upon his person and upon his soul everything that is American.”

"He told me to cut my hair like a boy, no make-up. I was so thin that my physique didn't look any different," she said.

But, from those heady days of millions of people rushing to send it saliva samples in return for detailed reports about their ancestry, family connections and genetic make-up, it now finds itself fighting for its survival.

If I wore too much make-up, not enough make-up, the colour of my hair, anything.

Jennylyn M Barrios’ job as a make-up artist takes her all over Manila – precious time away from Uno, her 10-month-old son.