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xvi, 302 pages ; 21 cm Until this groundbreaking work, scholars were puzzled by the differing courses of slavery and race relations in the United States and Brazil. Brazil had never developed a system of rigid segregation, such as appeared in the United States, and blacks in Brazil were able to gain economically and retain far more of their African culture. Rejecting the theory of Giberto Freyre and Frank Tannenbaum ; that Brazilian slavery was more humane ; the author points to a combination of demographic, economic and cultural factors as the real reason for the differences Includes bibliographical references I. The challenge of the contrast. Contrast in history ; Contrast in cultural response ; Contrast acknowledged ; An explanation advanced -- II. Slavery compared. Who protects the slave's humanity? ; Manumission: how easy, how common? ; Rebellions and runaways ; The international slave trade as cause ; Slave rearing as consequence ; A harsher slavery ; To arm a black slave ; Who identifies with negroes? ; The hidden difference -- III. The outer burdens of color. The geography of color prejudice ; Who is a negro? ; Permutations of prejudice ; Measures of discrimination -- IV. T

Author

David O. Shipley

Publisher

Macmillan : Collier-Macmillan

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780299109141

Subjects

Religion, Christian, History