Brazilian slavery was as violent as elsewhere despite more manumission and sexual mixing

Evidence

There was less public and arguably religious inhibition to sexual intercourse than in the US, and more openness to self-purchased manumission, to be sure. But the violence inherent in the very structure of racially inscribed slave society certainly spread across the region. Race marked the new Americas from the founding – the “discovering” – moment, as Quijano remarks, a generative condition of modernity not just in the region but for emergent Europe as well. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1064 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Slave societies were structurally violent despite more lenient sexual and manumission practices — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1064; Documented slave tortures exceeded whipping into extreme acts of cruelty — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 182

Broader Connections

• Slave societies were structurally violent despite more lenient sexual and manumission practices #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1064