A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 6.35 · 6.35

It falls to my father

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é a meo pae, que compete fazer o que de mim exiges.

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'it is for my father to do what you demand of me.'

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He finishes the dodge: the deed is his father's to sign, not his. It is technically true and wholly dishonest — the law of slavery hands him a perfect alibi for the cruelty he intends all along.

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