Colonial powers negotiated treaties making maroons into slave-catching buffers

Evidence

Unable to stand up to all the demands, the white man sloughs off his responsibilities. I have a name for this procedure: the racial distribution of guilt. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373; Colonial powers use colored troops to suppress other colonized people’s revolts; Two durable maroon societies formed in the Jamaican highlands.

Related

• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial powers use colored troops to suppress other colonized people’s revolts (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial powers distribute hatred by giving each subject group a sanctioned enemy. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. (similarity 0.85)
• Colonialism’s source was diffuse, a collaborative effort involving the colonized themselves (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial authorities already began politicizing genealogical divisions (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial officials blamed reform failures on indigenous vanity rather than state abandonment (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial authorities legitimized maroon communities via negotiated treaties. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial states formally recognized maroon communities by treaty rather than destroying them (similarity 0.80)
• World War I supplied colonial troops on a massive scale while contradicting empire’s rationale (similarity 0.79)
• Two durable maroon societies formed in the Jamaican highlands. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other #exemplifies (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373
• Colonial powers use colored troops to suppress other colonized people’s revolts #responds-to (0.65)