A Escrava Isaura 7.36 · 7.36

The general argument turns personal and lands on a name the reader half-knows: Juliana, Isaura's mother. Joaquina invokes her as the proof of everything she has said — a woman destroyed by captivity — and in doing so opens the chapter's second story, the one that explains how Isaura came to be born a slave.

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