A Escrava Isaura 7.175 · 7.175

The women gone, we are let into Isaura's own voice at last, and it is a cry. 'Nem aqui' — not even here, in the refuge she had hoped the senzala would be. The whole preceding portrait of stillness has been the surface over this: no place is safe for her, and she knows it now.

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