Tag: Spain
Portugal importou arabismos e escravidão da África; Brasil só virou polo escravista após inde-pendência da Espanha em 1640.
Portugal trajo del mundo islámico la “alforria” y el azúcar con esclavos; Brasil se llenó de africanos cuando España perdió el control portugués.
Brazil’s slavery was uniquely Portuguese – shaped by centuries of African contact, Arab loanwords, and a legal system where manumission was common.
News out of the Pentagon is that the great retreat from Germany is beginning. Five thousand U.S. troops are being withdrawn at the request of a petulant president who can’t stand criticism of his disastrous war of choice with Iran. (Then again, maybe it wasn’t a war of choice, as it appears his commander-in-chief, Bibi Netanyahu, gave him none.)
