Word: lucita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spanish aristocracy," says this novel's blurb, "came to 16th Century Mexico because of a romantic entanglement which violated the moral code of his class and time." One of Ricardo's first acts on reaching his sugar plantation in the New World was to violate Lucita, an Indian slave-girl: he calmed his conscience by muttering that she was "scarcely more than an animal." And when he met his branded, filthy, full-eyed, Indian field hands for the first time, Ricardo's only thought was how awful it was that a decent white man should have...
...Takers of the City is the story of how young Ricardo, helped by Lucita, underwent a change of heart and became a decent human being. It is also a well-painted picture, rich in color and action, of 16th Century Mexican life...
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