Complex sentence: Unlike most of its Hispanic republic neighbors, Brazil had political stability, vibrant economic growth, constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and respect for civil rights of its subjects, albeit with legal restrictions to women and slaves, the latter regarded as properties, not citizens.
Split into simpler sentences: Unlike most of its Hispanic republic neighbors, Brazil had political stability, vibrant economic growth, constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and respect for civil rights of its subjects. Common to that time, however, there were legal restrictions to women and slaves, the latter regarded as properties, not citizens.