This idea that the slave holder was a sort of father figure developed due to the history of Brazil and it's colonial relation with Portugal. Brazil was for a long period of it's development under the colonial control of the Portuguese empire. ... Unlike South Africa where there was a strong sense of tribal unity or in Brazil where slaves were imported relatively frequently giving them a sense of family and a bond with each other, American slaves were second or third generation slaves who new nothing of there culture or native lands and who where stripped from there family at a early...

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