Slave and Citizen

From the text that we read in class, "Slave and Citizen",  Frank Tennenbaum claimed that the slaves in different countries were being treated differently form the slaves in North America. In his defense, he used that in Brazil, for example, they give their slaves more "rights" due to the fact that they are more  "privileged".

In page 4 of the text, it mentions: "Even under the Empire the negro and the mulatto-and, socially, the attractive mulatto women-had an acceptance unthinkable in the American scene." To my comprehension, I understood that although they knew that slaves in different countries had more rights than the slaves in North America, they refused to change their laws for them and still wanted to treat as harsh or more cruel than what they already did. I feel that greed led them to act upon toward the hatred of the slaves. They treated the slaves like animals when the slaves did all their work and their growth and wealth would not happen if the slaves didn't work. They wanted to keep treating the slaves the same, due to their on greed. They did not care about the slaves or their human rights or their human privileges that they deserved.

But, although the slaves in other countries were considered more "liberal", I don't think they were considered any better either as well. They had to respond to a "master" and no human being is higher then the other, therefore, although they were more "liberal", they were still looked own upon somehow. Either way, slavery wasn't correct in any country, but in North America, they were more cruel and not human like.