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"Sprawling at her lapped breasts was her wide-awake fawn, stark naked, its black little body half lifted from the deck, crosswise with its dam’s; its hands, like two paws, clambering upon her; its mouth and nose ineffectually rooting to get at the mark; and meantime giving a vexatious half-grunt, blending with the composed snore of the Negress.The uncommon vigour of the child at length roused the mother. She started up, at distance facing Captain Delano. But, as if not at all concerned at the attitude in which she had been caught, delight-edly she caught the child up, with maternal transports, covering it with kisses."
--Herman Melville, 1856 in "Benito Cereno" treating a black mother breastfeeding her newborn as "nature," not human
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Carmen and Judy by Alice Neel 1972
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What can art teach us about breast-feeding? - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/what-can-art-teach-us-about-breast-feeding/2018/08/22/cadabf0a-91c4-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html
Edgar Degas’s “At the Races in the Countryside,” 1869, oil on canvas. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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