A Escrava Isaura 7.151 · 7.151

Isaura ends the quarrel by returning to the wheel. 'Trabalhemos' — let us work — is spoken in the first-person plural, drawing Rosa back into a shared task and a shared condition. She refuses the fight and offers, instead, the dignity of the labour they both owe.

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