A Escrava Isaura 8.29 · 8.29

Malvina does not plead; she 'exigia com imperio,' demanded with authority, the 'immediata alforria,' the immediate freeing. She speaks as mistress of the house and moral equal of her husband, insisting on the manumission he keeps deferring. Every voice with a claim — Miguel, the dead mother, Malvina — now says the same word: free her, and free her now.

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