A Escrava Isaura 7.71 · 7.71

The overseer's contempt is total and reflexive: the women are lazy, all mouth and no hands. He hears their talk not as grief but as theft of labour. It is the exact inversion of the reader's experience — we heard wisdom and love; he hears only idleness to be beaten out.

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