A Escrava Isaura 8.63 · 8.63

The catalogue of comforts continues: 'privação,' privation, want — Isaura lacks for nothing material, so where, Leôncio implies, is the harm? Each question narrows the moral field to the physical, deliberately blind to the one privation that matters, the loss of liberty itself.

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