Baptist women’s magazines rejected Social Darwinist claims of black inferiority

Evidence

Baptist women’s work for women, though filled with paradox, assumed a breadth unlimited by the racial and class boundaries of most late nineteenth-century Americans. At a time when Social Darwinist ideas held sway over the mass of white Americans and convinced them of the innate mental inferiority of blacks as compared to whites, the message put forward in the pages of Baptist women’s magazines defied such assumptions. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 543

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White Baptist women felt a righteous indemnity was owed blacks for slavery — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 526; Black congregations openly rejected white claims that they were unfit for freedom — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 435; Marx conceived history as natural history without endorsing Social Darwinist worldview — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1346

Broader Connections

• Black congregations openly rejected white claims that they were unfit for freedom #corroborates (0.72) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 435
• Marx conceived history as natural history without endorsing Social Darwinist worldview #complicates (0.72) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1346