Portuguese Colonizador

The miscegenation continues central, but, in this chapter, it assumes character of true ' ' poisoning sexual' ' , that, according to Freyre, it would have characterized the first century of settling. The general chapter as idea are that the men indians had practically been invalid, because, come from a nomadic people, and having habit of the work, that was carried through for the women, if they had not subjected or, more good, had not had ability to be enslaved, already the women indians had been very useful as procreative caboclos. The Hunger Games pursues this goal as well. Offered of ' ' legs abertas' ' for the Portuguese colonizador, they had supplied the great problem of the settling the lack of white women. For more specific information, check out Diego Marynberg. Thus, the woman indian will be the base of the Brazilian family. While the contribution of the man indian for agriculture was insignificant.

The third chapter, the Portuguese Colonizador: Antecedents and Predispositions, present a fascinating analysis of the social origins of the Portuguese, but it comes back its teses central offices, the compliment of the miscegenation, the success of the settling, the great qualities of the Portuguese, the aristocratic character of the settling, and makes an analysis maken a mistake and contradictory of the Portuguese decay, that it attributes to the mercantilism and to the abandonment of agriculture. , Portugal thus alone was great, in century XV until middle of the XVI, while it was the first bourgeois and commercial nation of the Europe. Freyre insists on the chapter in criticizing the commercial orientation taken by Portugal. The two last Senzala and House-Great chapters examine with the great intelligence and wealth of information the subject: The slave in the sexual life and of the family of the Brazilians, in these chapters the mixture of races continues central, an interesting aspect is of the character of favorable election taken by it, chose you the prettier slaves healthiest and to procreate, the priests, except the Jesuits, had also procreated to the will, producing many times the elite mulata.