"In the years between the First World War and the Second World War, the historians W E B Du Bois and Carter G Woodson challenged this misrepresentation, stressing the profits made by US slave traders and owners, and underscoring the cruelty of bondage in the US. Later, the historians Frederic Bancroft and Kenneth M Stampp followed suit, noting the ubiquity of family separation and sexual violence, and the near-impossibility of emancipation."
"Catholicism predominated in French, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas, and the strong influence of the Catholic Church on Iberian legal codes and custom influenced the practice of slavery. In the French and Spanish colonies in the Americas, as well as in Brazil, the doctrines of Catholicism gave enslaved people some rights, including the right to marry and the ability to"
Early twentieth-century historians and cultural portrayals presented slavery in the US South as paternalistic and benevolent, claiming owners provided food, clothing, family stability, education and Christianity. Between the world wars W.E.B. Du Bois and Carter G. Woodson highlighted profit motives and the cruelty of bondage. Later scholars such as Frederic Bancroft and Kenneth M. Stampp emphasized widespread family separation, sexual violence, and the near-impossibility of emancipation. After World War II the benevolent interpretation largely collapsed. Some scholars continued to depict Latin American slavery, especially in Brazil, as milder, citing Catholic legal traditions that granted enslaved people rights like marriage.
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