Olive Schreiner

“ But if, from behind some tapestry-covered armchair in the corner, a small, wizened, yellow face were to look out now, and a little naked arm guided an arrow, tipped with barbed bone dipped in poison, at her heart, the cry of the human preserving itself would surely arise ”

“ This excerpt shows Schriener pointing out that the blacks in South Africa were not “slaves,” though she does show sentiment that they are inferior by citing evolution as the cause of their status in society by saying “...they have to be imported: we do not breed them.”
“It would have been as easy for the early Boers to catch and convert into beasts of draught the kudus and springbucks, who kick up our African dust into your face, and are off with the wind, as to turn into profitably beasts of burden our little, artistic Bushmen, or our dancing Hottentots ”