Tommy Knocks
retired
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Interesting history about the wave of africans taken to portugal to work indentured servants. Many earned their freedom later on, the portuguese ended up absorbing them......
Ive been researching this for the past 4 hours, wonderin what happened to them, how were they treated, who bred them out, portuguese men or women? turns out both. First the africans and moors were there working building ships, working labor jobs, many becoming intellectuals, writers, poets, many mulattos (which were the first time these hybrids appeared on earth) enjoyed certain luxuries, exotic admirations. After 100 years...something happened, half of them were now mulattos (portuguese men/black women). Portugal, in having settled in india and finding brazil, began to have a male shortage, many leaving to go find new riches in the new colony.....this left many portuguese women to seek comfort from remainder black men and the now many mulatto men. also a cpl of invasions occured between the spanish and french (napoleon), and sure enough..no more black people, the country had re-whitened, the blacks were bred out, slightly changing the face of the portuguese forever. This means, that during the 17-18th century, a lot of the people that settled brazil, were mixed....the ones that bred with the natives during the settlement......were also mixed race.
this is how far back and complex brazil's mixing is.
interesting shyt.
Im still not done reading, Im sure there's a lot of detailed information I'm missing. But its interesting to see how the portuguese went from racist, to non-racist, back to racist (during the invasion), then back to non racist. bizarre.
Interesting history about the wave of africans taken to portugal to work indentured servants. Many earned their freedom later on, the portuguese ended up absorbing them......
Ive been researching this for the past 4 hours, wonderin what happened to them, how were they treated, who bred them out, portuguese men or women? turns out both. First the africans and moors were there working building ships, working labor jobs, many becoming intellectuals, writers, poets, many mulattos (which were the first time these hybrids appeared on earth) enjoyed certain luxuries, exotic admirations. After 100 years...something happened, half of them were now mulattos (portuguese men/black women). Portugal, in having settled in india and finding brazil, began to have a male shortage, many leaving to go find new riches in the new colony.....this left many portuguese women to seek comfort from remainder black men and the now many mulatto men. also a cpl of invasions occured between the spanish and french (napoleon), and sure enough..no more black people, the country had re-whitened, the blacks were bred out, slightly changing the face of the portuguese forever. This means, that during the 17-18th century, a lot of the people that settled brazil, were mixed....the ones that bred with the natives during the settlement......were also mixed race.
this is how far back and complex brazil's mixing is.
interesting shyt.
Im still not done reading, Im sure there's a lot of detailed information I'm missing. But its interesting to see how the portuguese went from racist, to non-racist, back to racist (during the invasion), then back to non racist. bizarre.
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I've been on here for the past 5 hours, I'm hooked.
