A Escrava Isaura 8.120 · 8.120

Isaura's dread is not abstract; it has a face. She is 'sabedora da miseranda sorte de sua mãe' — knowing the wretched fate of her mother, Juliana, whom Chapter VII showed whipped and worked to death for resisting a master. Isaura reads her own future in that history. The novel binds mother and daughter in one line of persecution.

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