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The major claim of the text is that people of color in Brazil had more opportunity than  those in North America. They had their own slaves and were intermingled into society. This is significant because there is clearly a different mindset about people of color in South American colonies. In the North people of color aren't even considered human. There is no upward mobility for a slave, once a slave always a slave. The Northern colored person had no hope of ever becoming free and living life as they chose, they worked until death. The sentiment towards people of color in South America was that they could start over and make something of themselves once they bought their freedom. In the North even after emancipation, it was an ingrained idea that people of color were inferior. There was no atmosphere of acceptance of colored people as equal humans.