A Escrava Isaura 7.158 · 7.158

'Vamos ao feijão' — let's go to the beans — names the meal by its plainest fact. Feijão, beans, was the daily fare of the senzala, and the phrase carries no illusion of a table: this is the slaves' ration, eaten together at the bell. Rosa's coarse cheer sits oddly against Isaura's quiet refusal.

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