Black resistance and submission were both cast as justifying slavery

Evidence

If Blacks did not violently resist, then they were cast as naturally servile. And yet, whenever they did fight, reactionary commentators, in both North and South, classified them as barbaric animals who needed to be caged in slavery. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 461

Categorization

• XREF: This double bind — docility or savagery, both pathologized — is the same rhetorical trap Kendi’s earlier frames describe; parallels the Islamophobia ‘either terrorist or apologist’ bind in Home Boy.