ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus, nicknamed Bitita. A lady who had moved to Sacramento and looking for maids and Carolina's mother accepted. Make desserts, prepare meats, stuff them, stuff chickens, because the lady son-in-law was going to arrive. Carolina's mother and Aunt Tereza were the ones preparing the food. At noon, the son-in-law arrived. The driver drove the eagerly awaited son-in-law, him and his wife, and their two children. His wife was a white beauty. Black hair and green eyes. The mother-in-law invited her son-in-law to see the house and the yard with its groves of trees. The lady looked at that black man as if she were looking at a jewel. The messiah who saved her from poverty. Carolina kept thinking about that good woman who was scorned merely because her son-in-law was black. That means that the black man made the lady lose the respect of the whites.
