They asked his blessing
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As escravas todas levantárão-se e tomárão a benção ao feitor.
All the slave-women rose and asked the overseer's blessing.
The women rise and ask the overseer's 'blessing' — a ritual of deference the enslaved owed their superiors, here bent grotesquely to the man tia Joaquina crossed herself against. The gesture of reverence given to a plague measures how thoroughly the system inverts every human value it touches.
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