A Escrava Isaura 7.107 · 7.107

Now the concrete grievance. Amasia is the period word for a slave woman kept as a master's lover — a relationship with no rights and no refusal in it, since the law made her his property. Guimarães states it plainly; the reader of 1875 understood the whole cruelty compressed into that one noun.

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