The deepest South
_Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?_
> "Postwar US scholars who saw Latin American slavery as less severe than the US version drew heavily on the earlier work of the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre and the US historian Frank Tannenbaum. Freyre’s book The Masters and the Slaves, originally published in 1933, was translated into English in 1946. Freyre went as far as to suggest an image of Brazil as a country virtually without racism, in contrast with the US. Over the past 50 years, however, historians like Florestan Fernandes and Abdias Nascimento have dismantled this 20th-century liberal fable of Brazil as a racial paradise. Due to the influence of Tannenbaum and Freyre’s work, however, a view of Brazilian slavery as comparatively benign, relative to the US, sometimes persists among educated people."
https://aeon.co/essays/way-down-south-slavery-far-beyond-the-united-states