Growing Pains of a Colonial Society. First edition. Frontispiece and 8 plates. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrappers, a fine copy. [xiii], 443pp. Berkeley/Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1962.
“Professor Boxer’s lively survey of a half century in the life of Portugal’s vast colony of Brazil begins with a discussion of the interdependence of Brazil and the slave markets of West Africa. Negro slave labor in the colony produced the sugar and tobacco which formed the basis of the Brazilian economy.” (text on dust-wrapper). West182.
