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“Na verdade, havia "barbárie" em ambos os lados e mais entre aqueles homens instruídos que tinham sido incapazes de pelo menos tentar entender a gente sertaneja.”
Boris Fausto, Historia do Brasil
“La expansión marítima dejó cada vez más claro lo erróneas que eran las viejas concepciones —la descripción del mundo en la Geografía de Claudio Ptolomeo, por ejemplo— y empezó a dársele más valor al conocimiento basado en la experiencia. Así comenzó a ponerse en duda el criterio de autoridad. Es decir: cada vez más, el prestigio de un autor dejaba de ser garantía de la veracidad de sus afirmaciones.”
Boris Fausto, Historia mínima de Brasil
“neither the church nor the state opposed the enslavement of blacks. Religious organizations such as the Benedictines even became large-scale slave owners.”
Boris Fausto, A Concise History of Brazil
“They maintained that the institution of slavery already existed in Africa and that they had merely transported slaves to the Christian world where they would become civilized and saved, once they knew true religion.”
Boris Fausto, A Concise History of Brazil

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