A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 6.121 · 6.121

Coarsely dismissed

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e em consequencia da qual foi grosseiramente despedido por seo patrão.

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and in consequence of which he was coarsely dismissed by his master.

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The wound the whole chapter keeps circling: dismissed 'grosseiramente' — coarsely, brutally — for the crime of love. The manner of the firing, not just the fact, is the insult; the master could not merely part with Miguel but had to degrade him.

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