A Escrava Isaura 7.43 · 7.43

'Home judeo' is the era's ugly idiom for a pitiless man — an antisemitic figure of common speech that Guimarães records without comment. It is worth naming plainly: the word means 'merciless' here, and the slur is the 1875 world's, not a claim about the master's faith. The 'God forgive him' that follows is folk-piety softening a curse.

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