african women in brazil
The social and economic history of Colonial Latin America was greatly influenced by the importation of more than five million Africans spanning from the 16th Century until the 19th Century. Although African history in Colonial Brazil is dominated by images of male slaves, it was a diverse palate of races, genders, and social classes that is sadly neglected in historical text, especially African women. Through sources concerning plantation and urban slavery in Robert Edgar Conrad\'s documentary of primary sources, Children of God\'s Fire, the various roles and levels of social degradation of slave women, free African women, and mulattas in Brazilian society are illustrated and finally recognized in historical text. African women living on Brazilian plantations worked in the fields and in the slave owner\'s house. According to a Brazilian Consul in Recife, newly arrived African women, bozalas, worked as hard as the enslaved men hoeing and hacking crops with a scythe fo
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Approximate Word count = 681
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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