...and hates the executioner
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para revoltar-se contra o algoz, que a executa.
to rise up against the executioner who carries it out.
The sentence — and the paragraph — lands on 'algoz,' the executioner, the hands-on tormentor who carries out what another decreed. Guimarães has quietly built an argument: the rage of the enslaved lights on the nearest agent, while the true author of their bondage, the slaveholding order itself, stays out of the line of fire. It is one of the novel's sharpest political insights.
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