Clavis Libri

Theme

Slavery

Slavery as an institution and as an experience: slave and master, the slave trade, manumission.

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

Machado de Assis

the newly arrived enslaved Africans from Luanda at the 1814 dinner (chapter XII), Prudêncio mounted (chapter XI), the division of the enslaved people (chapter XLVI), The Whip (chapter LXVIII), and the portrait of Cotrim (chapter CXXIII).

The Slum

Aluísio Azevedo

the forged letter of freedom (chapter I), Bertoleza without Sunday or holy day (chapter VI), the work slave who stops being a lover (chapter XIX), the plan to return her legally to her master (chapter XXI) and the final scene (chapter XXIII).