sentences:  Slave owners would then keep a day's wage of one pataca, and the quitandeiras were then expected to buy their own food and rum, thus causing the enslaved women and their owners to become enriched.With access to gold or to gold dust, the quitandeiras were able to purchase the freedom of their children's and their own.Prostitution was almost exclusively a trade performed by slave women, many of whom were forced into it to benefit their owners socially and financially.