When Africans were transported to the Americas as slaves, they were considered savages and people without culture. However, the major impact that African culture holds on Latin America is proof that these people were able to conserve and maintain their culture throughout all the hardships that they were able to endure. Things did not go particularly as planned for the Portuguese who most likely did not plan on Brazilian society to become as diverse as it became because of the large amounts of Africans in Brazil. The Portuguese realized the large impact of people of African descent on society and attempted to regulate slaves or free people in order to prevent a much feared rebellion. Rebellion through various forms, whether a radical revolt
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The slave was even referred to as “pieces” comparing their bodies to pieces of material or commercial objects (Conrad 166). But some were able to hold a variety of roles as evidenced in “Four Classes of Blacks: The Observations of a British Clergyman in Rio de Janeiro” where Robert Walsh, notes the four different roles he saw Black people employed in throughout a single day, eventually concluding that color is simply a quality that should be compared to clothes (Conrad 220). A person of African descent being able to express themselves as free people with their own interests was difficult even when they were granted freedom. Therefore sometimes it had to take a lot of courage to deviate from the norm. Their collective but individual impact on Brazilian families is shown in “The influence of Black and Mulatto Household Slaves” by Jose Verissimo (Conrad 221), and “The Black Wet Nurse: A Status symbol” by Charles Expilly (Conrad 139). Both talk about the turst and intimacy that the mucama had with Brazilians and the need for the domestic to be an overall caretaker of all, portraying in Expilly a status symbol that would be representative of the status of the family. In this way the African domestic would be able to perhaps more likely be treated as a human and resist against the true destruction of their
The slave was even referred to as “pieces” comparing their bodies to pieces of material or commercial objects (Conrad 166). But some were able to hold a variety of roles as evidenced in “Four Classes of Blacks: The Observations of a British Clergyman in Rio de Janeiro” where Robert Walsh, notes the four different roles he saw Black people employed in throughout a single day, eventually concluding that color is simply a quality that should be compared to clothes (Conrad 220). A person of African descent being able to express themselves as free people with their own interests was difficult even when they were granted freedom. Therefore sometimes it had to take a lot of courage to deviate from the norm. Their collective but individual impact on Brazilian families is shown in “The influence of Black and Mulatto Household Slaves” by Jose Verissimo (Conrad 221), and “The Black Wet Nurse: A Status symbol” by Charles Expilly (Conrad 139). Both talk about the turst and intimacy that the mucama had with Brazilians and the need for the domestic to be an overall caretaker of all, portraying in Expilly a status symbol that would be representative of the status of the family. In this way the African domestic would be able to perhaps more likely be treated as a human and resist against the true destruction of their