No one would call her a slave
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Ninguem diria que era uma escrava, que trabalhava entre as companheiras,
No one would say she was a slave, working among the companions,
The paragraph's thesis, stated flat: nothing in her marked her as enslaved. Guimarães is pressing the reader toward the novel's central discomfort — that the line between mistress and slave was, in Isaura's case, invisible and therefore arbitrary. The abolitionist argument is aesthetic before it is moral.
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