“Another important difference between Latin America and the United States involved conceptions of race. In Spanish and Portuguese America, an intricate system of racial classification emerged. Compared with the British and French, the Spanish and Portuguese were much more tolerant of racial mixing—an attitude encouraged by a shortage of European women—and recognized a wide range of racial gradations, including black, mestizo, …show more content…
Slavery in Brazil was not as aggressive, slaves had the freedom to go and come but not to escalate in higher positions of society. They were not treated fairly, but they were not abused or separated from the idea of freedom, because it was