A Escrava Isaura 8.65 · 8.65

The idiom 'á tôa' means aimlessly, at random, with no direction; 'soltar á tôa' is to turn loose like an unmoored animal. Leôncio paints emancipation as abandonment — as though freedom without his supervision were cruelty. It is the classic paternalist inversion: the cage is called protection, and the open door a danger.

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