A Escrava Isaura 7.42 · 7.42

The old woman brings the dead mother back into the room as warning, not gossip: Juliana's suffering is the measure of what beauty-under-slavery costs. She is teaching the young women — and the reader — to see Isaura's fate as inherited, a second act already written.

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