Author Question: Treatment of enslaved Africans in Brazil was especially harsh because slaveowners A) were ... (Read 85 times)

cool · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Treatment of enslaved Africans in Brazil was especially harsh because slaveowners

A) were psychotic racists intent upon the extermination of black people.
B) coldly calculated that they could double their profits by working slaves to death.
C) greatly feared Africans, who far outnumbered the tiny Portuguese slave-holding elite.
D) were ignorant of other ways to increase labor productivity.

Question 2

The Senado da Cmara was a municipal council whose membership

A) was democratically elected in elections open to all adult, non-indigenous males.
B) required royal appointment and faithful allegiance to the Crown.
C) represented the ruling class of merchants, planters, and professionals.
D) was determined by the ouvidor, who combined judicial and administrative duties.