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Caroline Kohorst Pollard IB History- D 10 September 2007 The contrasts between both the Brazil and United States slave institutions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries illustrate the concept of Brazil maintaining a more benevolent slave system than the United States. Brazil's economics were preserved and somewhat dependent upon the slavery, while the United States's economics were just enhanced through the slavery system. Thus explaining that the Brazilians could not maintain any type of economy without slavery. A large aspect of Brazilian slavery that differentiated itself from that of the United States was the slave's ability to attain freedom more easily, a system that was traitorous in the southern United States. Included with the slaves right to be released from the owner, there was not the outright racism in Brazil that was present in the United States. Another main difference is Brazil's ownership by Great Britain, and therefore Brazil was forced to abide by...

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