A Escrava Isaura 6.27 · 6.27

'Liberte-a, venda-a' — free her, sell her — laid side by side as equal options, and there is the whole obscenity of the institution in three words. Malvina is no villain; yet even her just demand can only be phrased in the property-language slavery forces on everyone it touches.

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