Brazilian slaveholders and later writers racialized African ethnic groups by supposed docility

Evidence

Writing in the mid-1960s, Jose Rodrigues appears to have confused Brazilian lore and reality: “Despite the variety of tribes represented in Brazil, the Bantus were always preferred because they were less independent, more submissive, more reserved in behavior and loquacious in speech, and more adaptable. They accepted the religion, Christianity, and the social forms imposed upon them. The most characteristic Bantu type was the Angolan. Taller than other Negroes, less robust, they were communicative, talkative, and cordial. Less conformable were the Dahomeyan tribes (Jejes), the most important of which was the Nago, and the Mohammedans, who came mostly from northern Nigeria and were called Males. The least submissive Negroes in Brazil were the Hausas.” Rodrigues, op. cit., pp. 44–45. … Rodrigues, as we shall see shortly, was not entirely accurate. Hausas had participated in only some of these movements. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2034

Categorization

• QUESTION: This 1960s Brazilian account stereotypes Bantus as submissive and Hausas as rebellious — worth verifying against primary sources how far this shaped actual enslavement practice.