A Escrava Isaura 7.118 · 7.118

The narrator now steps out of the scene to generalize — a favourite move of his — and states a hard social truth. Of all the figures on a plantation, it is the feitor, the overseer, who draws the purest hatred, because he is the hand that is always present and always striking.

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