The weaving-hall
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Na fazenda de Leoncio havia um grande salão toscamente construido, sem forro nem soalho, destinado ao trabalho das escravas, que se occupavão em fiar e tecer lã e algodão.
On Leôncio's estate there was a large hall built for the enslaved women's work.
The chapter opens away from the great house entirely, in the work-hall where the enslaved women spin and weave. After the letters and the death of the last chapter, Guimarães pulls back to the plantation's engine room and to the people the whole system runs on. The room is 'roughly built, without ceiling or floorboards' — the plainness is the point.
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