Carl Degler's 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative
slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the
Wisconsin paperback edition, making it accessible for all students
of American and Latin American history and sociology.
Until Degler's groundbreaking work, scholars were puzzled by the
differing courses of slavery and race relations in the two
countries. Brazil never developed a system of rigid segregation,
such as appeared in the United States, and blacks in Brazil were
able to gain economically and retain far more of their African
culture. Rejecting the theory of Giberto Freyre and Frank
Tannenbaum--that Brazilian slavery was more humane--Degler instead
points to a combination of demographic, economic, and cultural
factors as the real reason for the differences.
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