A Escrava Isaura 7.247 · 7.247

The economic mask is fitted tight. Leôncio calls the workroom 'um lugar de vadiação,' a place of idling, of loafing — as if the enslaved women spinning from dawn to night were shirkers. It is the slaveholder's permanent slander, that those he works to exhaustion are lazy; the accusation justifies driving them harder, and here it justifies emptying the room he wants for himself.

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