For the freedom of Isaura
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para a liberdade de uma escrava desta casa por nome Isaura.
for the freedom of a slave of this house by the name of Isaura.'
He names her at last: Isaura, a slave of this house. A father buying his own child's freedom must speak of her in the law's cold terms — 'a slave, by the name of' — the very language the novel is written to indict.
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