Brazilian slaves functioned as social dress as well as labor
Evidence
Now the slave was more than an object of luxury, as Lacerda had believed. The slave in nineteenth-century Brazil had become a costume, an item of social dress and self-presentation as well as the source of the energy that produced the real wealth of the economy. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 744
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Brazilian slaves functioned as the master class’s costume and dress (similarity 0.94)
- Brazilian slavery served display and vanity far beyond material production (similarity 0.93)
- Slavery in Brazil extended even to whites (similarity 0.84)
- Slave traders assigned Africans stereotyped aptitudes to match labor niches. (similarity 0.83)
- Brazil’s slaves were deliberately worked to death and replaced (similarity 0.82)
- Slave status marked whites so indelibly that even race could not absorb the stigma (similarity 0.82)
- Southern slavery was a culture and social order, not only an economic system (similarity 0.82)
- Brazilian slave-trade nationalization reorganized ethnic slave disposition patterns (similarity 0.82)
- African slave labor filled nearly every economic role across Spanish America. (similarity 0.81)
- Brazilian slavery extended to white enslaved people, disproving race-based definitions (similarity 0.81)
- Severe sex imbalance and infant mortality drove Brazil’s slave decline (similarity 0.81)
- Post-slavery Brazil retained a white aristocratic caste dependent on Black labor (similarity 0.79)
- Slaves were deliberately worked to death because replacement was cheaper than upkeep (similarity 0.79)
- European colonization employed slave labor as its foundational institution, not incidentally (similarity 0.79)
- Brazilian slaveholders and later writers racialized African ethnic groups by supposed docility (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Slave-control ideology assigned each African ethnicity a natural niche matching its labor role
#contradicts(0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 760