The production of the Brazilian sugar was hegemony due to important participation of the dutches in this commerce, only that when Philip II of Spain possesses itself of the Portuguese throne in 1580 he interrupts the commerce with the dutches on the other hand after the creation of the Company of Occidental India these last ones attack the colony in 1624 without good results and alone in 1630 they take Pernambuco, dominating per 24 years the half of the production of the sugar, but when leaving in 1654 they had led I obtain the techniques acquired in Brazil for implanting in the Antilhas, this factor together with the twenty and four years of fights it made the sugar Brazilian arrives ' ' The loss of hegemonia' ' , but exactly thus it gave to many profits Portugal more than what the mining. The last chapter, ' ' Daily of acar' ' , it displays the relations that had been and if they had created between slave-Mr. in the Brazilian society, forming the social pyramid of the sugar where ' ' The powerful gentleman of engenho' ' this on ' ' the immense mass of escravos' ' (p.69), it not only possesss slaves for the work, but for the luxury, relation these full of tensions and conflicts that were covered by the familiar environment, since everything turned entorno of the device that was represented for Mr. or ' ' Nobles of acar' ' that they tried to show through the clothes, horses, furniture, wares, ' ' this wealth, however, was not real' ' (p.81), since it got few profits with the commerce of the sugar and before vender already it was had the profit all, appealing many times the Portuguese authorities not to lose everything, beyond having day-by-day in a needy life, but that it did not show to the foreigners, beyond an image family in accordance with the standards, as one ' ' clan (...) the family was the school where if it learned the subordination, the passivity, obedience, ' ' (p.83), he was ' ' The family patriarcal' ' , formed for Mr., white wife house owner and the generating of children, these, oldest went substitutes the father and the others destined to the study and priesthood, beyond the slaves for the house works, all these constitutions happened in ' ' House-great and senzala' ' the first dwelling Mr., ample, of two floors, shade and pleasant temperature, contradicting with second crowded of slaves, ' ' constructed the fashion of jail, rectangular, trrea' ' , (p.85), already the religion had great force in this universe to join the world of the sugar, with its sunday masses and at the beginning of the milling, baptisms and marriages, as well as after made the harvests, the same he was not pro black that its dilacerado religious universe had, hindered to express any thing that remembered Africa, but exactly thus practised its cults in hidden places.

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