Colonized Indian women bore fewer children than women married to Europeans

Evidence

[E]xperienced observers have noted that in areas where the Indian population has been noticeably reduced, many Indian women are childless and completely sterile … ; in those same places and areas, Indian women married to Europeans and to mestizas, cuaterones, malattoes, zambos, and Negroes are so fertile and produce so many children that they can rival Jewish women in this regard The difference is that the Indian woman with an Indian husband produces humble Indian children … Indian children are subject to depression, are spiritless and fearful and obliged to pay tribute, which though not excessive is regarded as a burden and a stigma …; the majority of Indians have one child only, to satisfy their creative instincts and then take herbs to prevent the arrival of others. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1904

Categorization

• QUESTION: This 18th-century missionary observation suggests psychosomatic sterility under colonial subjugation — worth checking whether modern demography supports it.