A Escrava Isaura 7.206 · 7.206

He presses his one advantage: in the senzala, away from the masters' eyes, 'podemos conversar mais em liberdade,' we can talk more freely. The word 'liberdade' — freedom, liberty — is loaded in a slave's mouth, and André uses it only to mean a chance to court her unsupervised. Isaura will seize the very word and turn it against him.

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