The Yield Chapter 27 Summary & Analysis

Greenleaf’s story continues. After Wowhely’s death, his family gifted his fishing spear to the reverend, who delivered it to a museum. Tensions between White colonizers and Aboriginal Australian people were worsening. Greenleaf never understood the settlers’ inherent prejudice but has come to expect it. He has seen Aboriginal boys whipped mercilessly by Station masters and women raped with no consequence for their abusers. The few settlers taken to court for their crimes received leniency from the judges. Greenleaf hopes that, by writing to Dr. Cross, he and others with influence in England might force Australia’s colonial authorities to take action against these abusers.

In donating Wowhely’s spear to a museum, Greenleaf treats his Aboriginal Australian residents as a cultural curiosity rather than friends and equals. Blind to his own prejudice, he continues to denounce the White settlers’ more obviously violent abuses, which dehumanize the Aboriginal population. Having witnessed how such behavior is rarely punished, the reverend appeals to colonial authorities, naively assuming they don’t share the same bigotry as the other settlers.

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In 1892, the Aborigines Protection Board requested handcrafted items to display at the World’s Fair in Chicago and offered to pay Greenleaf to attend. The residents worked hard to create exceptional display pieces. Greenleaf rejected Dr. Cross’s written request for three Aboriginal skulls, though he and the other man got on well at the exposition. Greenleaf was hopeful that he’d secured more philanthropic funding for the Mission, but in retrospect he views that hope as unfounded. In 1909, the Mission’s first child, Mercy, married and welcomed her own daughter, Augustine. That same year, the Protection Board ordered all but full-blood Aboriginal Australians be “handed over for employment.” Greenleaf protested and locked the gates, but the constable forced him to comply.

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Despite what its name implies, the Aborigines Protection Board seems more concerned with regulating the lives of Aboriginal Australians than shielding them from harm. Their interest in the Mission, as evidenced by Dr. Cross’s request for human skulls, is founded in pseudoscientific curiosity rather than humanitarian philanthropy. Even Greenleaf realizes that none of these powerful Englishmen want to help the residents. The juxtaposition between Mercy’s birth and the institutionalization of forced labor shows how, despite Greenleaf’s efforts, many White colonizers perceive the Aboriginal people as an inferior people who should be exploited.

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The Yield: Chapter 27 Summary & Analysis