The American Egypt : a record of travel in Yucatan . SLAVERY ON THE HACIENDAS 335 with greedy lips to her nipple, she, too, will think it does notmatter : perhaps she will not think at all. She is a mother :it matters little by whom. She has done her duty to God Whowilled her maker of men. She has done her duty to her masterwho bids her make him slaves. Perhaps in the black head,bending, crooning, over the morsel of brown flesh, there will beno feeling, more or less, than the apathetic mother-love ofthe cow as it licks with loving tongue each spot on its new-born calf. Perhaps, perhaps not. He
The American Egypt : a record of travel in Yucatan . SLAVERY ON THE HACIENDAS 335 with greedy lips to her nipple, she, too, will think it does notmatter : perhaps she will not think at all. She is a mother :it matters little by whom. She has done her duty to God Whowilled her maker of men. She has done her duty to her masterwho bids her make him slaves. Perhaps in the black head,bending, crooning, over the morsel of brown flesh, there will beno feeling, more or less, than the apathetic mother-love ofthe cow as it licks with loving tongue each spot on its new-born calf. Perhaps, perhaps not. He would be bold indeedwho would dare to say that man has a right to command thatapathy. And so, after centuries of oppression, the race is dead,a chattel, body and soul, of a corrupt and degraded the task of revivifying these poor Mayans with theelixir of freedom is undertaken, if it ever is (and pray Godit be), by the United States of America, it will be as difficultas nursing back to convalescence a patient sick unto beings wi
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