A scientific-philanthropic rationale was fabricated to justify Negro slavery.

Evidence

[The South’s] subservient religious leaders reverted to the “curse of Canaan”; [its] pseudo-scientists gathered and supplemented all available doctrines of racial inferiority; [its] scattered schools and pedantic periodicals repeated these legends … a basis in reason, philanthropy and science was built up for Negro slavery, (p. 39) All of this was necessary for the persistence of slavery through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and for its meteoric development in the early nineteenth century. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 935

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out the ideological machinery—religion, pseudo-science, education—that manufactured racial inferiority.