La Esclava Isaura

by Bernardo Guimarães

This novel by Guimar es tells the story of the emancipation of an enslaved woman in Brazil in the first third of the 19th century and is rescued by a wealthy man who falls in love with her. Recognized as one of the few novels with an abolitionist theme in Brazil in the 19th century, La esclava Isaura (Isaura, the slave) (1875), also advances the idea of the right of the individual, even the enslaved, to love and the dignity of their spirit, and protests...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CC2BWPFH
• ISBN13: 9781930744400
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoam
• Length: 275 Pages