Black self-emancipation, not white persuasion, eroded the docile-slave stereotype

Evidence

The growing number of runaways proved that Confederate reports of contented captives was mere propaganda. This form of Black resistance—not persuasion—finally started to eradicate the racist idea of the docile Black person in northern minds. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 577

Categorization

• XREF: This is a concrete case for the reader’s stated goal of testing Kendi’s causal inversion — Black action (self-liberation) changes racist ideas, not the reverse. Relevant to the book’s central thesis and to my other task. — connects to: White abolitionist films erase black agency and depict slaves as passive recipients of emancipation — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 53
• SEED: Angle: the pattern that marginalized groups overturn stereotypes about themselves only through action/exit, not through being persuaded to — exit as stereotype-refutation.