HILA 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gilberto Freyre, Yellow Fever, Miscegenation
10 Apr 2017
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Slavery in brazil: gilberto freyre and the myth of racial democracy a 20th century national identity. Role of mulattos in national brazil identity and sovereignty. Difference between protestant and catholic slave-based societies: paternalism at helm to take care of these slaves, manumission. Large population of free people of color (mulattos: lots of people of mixed race and urban slaves were able to repurchase their freedom or granted freedom, rate of manumission into the 19th century: 3/1. The fact that brazilian slave has the legal right to repurchase their freedom and were granted freedom = meant a different social society compared to the us: miscegenation as a positive force. Saw mulattos as the classic brazil so instead of a weakness of impediment to the national identity, freyre saw mulattos as the strength. During the 20th century slavery in brazil produced a society which was less dehumanizing and brutal to africans compared to the treatment in us.
