A Escrava Isaura 7.77 · 7.77

'Come here, girl' — no name, just the summons owners use. The overseer addresses Isaura as a unit of labour, and the whole gulf between the parlour she left and the hall she has entered is in that flat imperative. The chapter's cruel machinery now speaks to her directly.

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