THE NEGRO IN BAHIA, BRAZIL.

This article deals with Brazil as one of the details of European expansion. It is peculiarly concerned with the circumstances and conditions under which migration and settlement occurred on this particular European frontier and the series of cultural consequences stemming therefrom, especially as they have affected the survival of African stock imported into this area as one of the incidents of its settlement. Peculiarly interesting in this connection is the fact that, although probably more Africans were imported into Brazil than into any other region of the New World, and they at one time constituted, in centers of concentration like Bahia, an overwhelming majority of the population, Africans as a racial unit is throughout Brazil gradually, but to all appearances inevitably, disappearing. The Africans and the mixedbloods are represented throughout the entire occupational scale, although, as is to be expected, considering the original slave status of Africans, their relatively disadvantaged position upon receiving their liberty, and the comparatively brief time they have enjoyed a freely competitive status, the darker portion of the population is still concentrated in the low-pay, low-status employments.