 Not only was slavery harsh but the making of families was also extreme.In 1778, José da Lisboa wrote,“ Because of the obvious benefits accruing from male labor over female, there are always three times as many males as females among the slave population, which perpetuates the pattern of their failure to propagate as well as their failure to increase in number from generation to generation”.Slave owners in Brazil viewed their slaves as replaceable and the shipment of slaves from the West Africa were insurmountable.