Coffee is what makes money
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Vocês verão. Elle o que quer é café, e mais café, que é o que dá dinheiro.
'You'll see. What he wants is coffee, and more coffee — that's what makes money.'
The verdict is blunt economics: coffee is money, and the women are inputs. Joaquina strips away every softer story — the household, the crafts, even the master's whims — and names the single logic that will grind them: 'more coffee.' The book's abolitionist heart beats hardest in these plain sentences from the senzala.
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