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Excerpt from "Masters and Slaves" by Gilberto Freyre 

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Excerpt from "Masters and Slaves" by Gilberto Freyre 

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“Today, all Brazilians (even the light-skinned, blond ones) carry in their souls (when not in both soul and body) the mark of Africa or indigenous America… We reveal it in our tenderness… also in our music, our speech, our gait, and our way of singing lullabies. The mark of Africa is on our sincerest forms of self-expression. It is the influence of the slave ‘mammy’ who rocked us to sleep, who breast-fed and then spoon-fed us, after mashing the food to a pulp in her hand. It is the influence of the old woman who told us ghost stories, of the young boy who was our first playmate, of the mulata who groomed us and, in the creaking cot where we felt for the first time the sensation of complete manhood, initiated us in the ways of physical love.”