texts: Why was the maid crying? </s> <s> I'm not sure I can make you understand.  You know what this is? </s> <s> A figure of St. Sebastian.
labels: Yes.  But it was once the figurehead of a slave ship.  That's where our people came from -- from the misery and pain of slavery. For generations they found life a burden. That's why they still weep when a child is born -- and make merry at a burial.