>>213135808Nope, slavery in Brazil was awful for most of its history, specially before the transatlantic slave trade was shut down by the UK. Brazilian slave owners just made them work to death for 5 to 10 years and then bought new slaves straight from Africa using the Portuguese/Brazilian monopoly on the trade. You can point out the racial equality of free people in Brazil without whitewashing what happened to the ones in slavery.
Brazil received 10 times more African slaves than the US but today the black presence in our genepools is similar, even considering how the US has received much more immigrants, reducing further the proportion of black blood there than here. How do you explain this? The American south has a much bigger black presence in their genepool than the Brazilian northeast, even though there was virtually no European immigration to the northeast. What happened to all of those black slaves?
>The reason why it took so long to end slavery here is because it had been ending for a long time, slaves had won plenty of rights way before that.If you are talking about those gradual abolitionist laws that freed newborns and old slaves, they only started being conceded after the US had already fully abolished slavery and very few slaves were actually benefited by them. Also few years later we enacted full abolition so these laws ended up being pretty meaningless.