A Escrava Isaura 7.81 · 7.81

The overseer's whole creed in four words, and the exact opposite of the chapter we have just read — which was all talk, and in that talk, all the truth. 'Little talk and much work' is the silencing of the senzala's one freedom. The line closes his speech and leaves Isaura at the wheel, alone with Rosa and the long afternoon.

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