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Brazil, composed of historical layers rather than social strata...travel inward from coast= contemporary civ-->Empire-->colonial times--->pre-colonial period¹ (18)

Abolition of slavery-->crisis of integrating blacks as citizens² (19)

slavery introduced in Brazil due to manpower crises in Portugal.³ (32)

burning of official documents regarding slavery after abolition⁴ (33)

"Portugal imported its society along with its civilization. Slavery, by contrast, broke up the African society and the blacks could bring nothing with them except their cultural values."⁵ (36)

independence/autonomy of families (casa grandes) within colonial Brazil creating "a transplanted fragment of Portuguese society."⁶ (38-39)

1R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 18.

2R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 19.

3R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 32.

4R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 33.

5R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 36.

6R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978)38–39.