 | George McCall Theal - 1896 - 352 páginas
...Algarve it was impossible for the industrious European and the indolent African to labour side by side, and so all of the most enterprising of the peasant...of the peasantry, until a new and degenerate stock was formed. To find the true descendants of the Portuguese heroes of the sixteenth century, one must... | |
 | George McCall Theal - 1902 - 568 páginas
...Gonfalves and Nuno Tristao brought the first home with them, and then the doom of the kingdom was sealed. No other Europeans have ever treated negroes so mildly...northern provinces Entre Douro e Minho and Tras os Montes a pure European race remained, fit not only to conquer, but to hold dominion in distant lands,... | |
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African, and so all of the most enterprising of the peasant class moved away. The slaves, on embracing Christianity, had various privileges conferred upon them, and their blood became mixed with that of the least energetic of the peasantry, until a new... 