Slave societies were structurally violent despite more lenient sexual and manumission practices

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

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Angela Davis’s argument that slave revolts and resistance were more common under ‘lenient’ masters; also contradicts the romanticized Brazilian racial democracy narrative. — connects to: Modern ethnoracial massacre magnitudes match or exceed those of chattel slavery — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 22