A Escrava Isaura 8.128 · 8.128

The narrator asks Isaura's own despairing question aloud: 'Quem poderia amparal-a?' — who could shelter, shield, protect her? 'Amparar' is the verb of taking someone under one's protection, exactly what a slave under a predatory master cannot claim by right. The question hangs unanswered, and the next lines will count her protectors and find them powerless.

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