Slave mother with child and henequen plant. The Yaqui people were famed for being hard-working and strong. Between 1904 and 1909, around 15,000 of them were rounded up, forced along the tortuous route to Yucatan and enslaved.
Photo from Barbarous Mexico by K. Turner © K. Turner, 1910
John Pint
Source article: Yaqui in exile: the grim history of Mexico's San Marcos train station