A Escrava Isaura 7.120 · 7.120

Here is the paradox Guimarães wants examined: the overseer is hated even more than the master who owns them and ordered the cruelty. The abolitionist mind behind the novel is probing a genuine moral confusion — why the enforcer, not the author, draws the deepest rage.

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