Slavery is slavery bottom line!, Marcus Anderson Post 27

When reading the chapter on Brazil, I was so annoyed when I was reading the segment of The Brazilian and American Slave System. Marger tells us about Gilberto Freyre, a Brazilian historian who made claims that the Portuguese when they came to Brazil were more tolerant to African slaves. He claims that the slavery was more 'humane' in Brazil than North America. I have a few opinions about this theory. I believe that slavery is slavery regardless of how you slice it. I cant understand how slavery could be more or less harsh. Even if this was the case, I do not think that it should be on the record for the majority of Africans who were in slavery. I believe there might have been a small percent who had it more 'humane' but not the whole. My other concern with Freyre's thoughts are that he is taking away from the moral principle of slavery, that it was wrong. I could be that I have strong opinions about these ideas but wrong is wrong, and I feel that every slave or even the majority were treated as 'humane' as Freyre displays.