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Migrant Mother, 1936, by Dorothea Lange (1895–1965). This powerful photograph of a migrant mother in
central California reveals both anxiety and strength. (Copyright The Dorothea Lange Collection, The Oakland
Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.)
Master and slave, also, are united by a reciprocal need, in this case economic,
which does not liberate the slave. In the relation of master to slave the master does not
make a point of the need that he has for the other; he has in his grasp the power of satis-
fying this need through his own action; whereas the slave, in his dependent condition, his