A Escrava Isaura 7.59 · 7.59

Joaquina says it plainly: 'the same fate as her mother.' The whole of Juliana's story was told to make this one sentence land — Isaura is watched by the same eye, owned by the same kind of man, and headed, the old woman fears, for the same grave. Prophecy in the mouth of the powerless.

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