From parlour to slave-hut
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— Pois não é duro mudar-se da sala para a senzala, trocar o sofá de damasco por esse cepo,
— Is it not hard to move from the parlour to the slave-hut, to trade the damask sofa for that wooden block,
Rosa's real attack begins, and it is built on objects. She lines up the losses: the damask sofa against the 'cepo,' a rough log used as a seat. The contrast is precise and pitiless — the softness of the great house set against the bare wood of the senzala — and every item is a needle aimed at Isaura's fallen state.
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