Brazilian slavery extended to white enslaved people, disproving race-based definitions

Evidence

Slavery, it appears, occupied most Brazilians and preoccupied all. And, finally, to the consternation of few Brazilians it seems, the etiquette of domination was extended far beyond the boundaries of race and color: … [T]he existence of white slaves in Brazil [w]as attested to in 1827 by a member of the national Chamber of Deputies. “It is a taint in the blood,” as [Robert] Walsh put it with Anglo-Saxon incredulity, “which no length of time, no change in relationship, no alteration of colour can obliterate.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 747

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the book’s central contention that racial slavery was status-based rather than purely phenotype-based, connecting to the Black radical tradition’s analysis of racial capitalism.