Blog Assignment Number Two

 One of the most interesting things from Slave and Citizen is how slavery was treated ridiculously different in Brazil, then what it was in the United States. In Brazil, blacks had the chance of being treated as equal as any other race. They had real professions such as doctors and even becoming presidents! When I think of the word slavery, a mental image comes in my mind. I picture an individual doing hard labor, sweating in the sun. Reading Slave and Citizen erases this whole image in my mind. I can't believe that on a different part of the world, slaves were basically family to the family that they belonged to. The craziest thing to me is how these slaves in Brazil can try to negotiate and buy their freedom. That was definitely not an option for the slaves in the U.S. What makes it socially acceptable for these slaves to have this type of freedom? At the end of they day, it really makes no sense to me because they are still slaves. They are still property to whoever owns them. They just have slightly better treatment. I'm curious to find out about slavery in other parts of the world now because if this is what was happening in Brazil, I can imagine anywhere else.