English colonial ideology of savagery extended from the Irish to Africans and natives

Evidence

There was, though, an even older mythology, one that preceded the development of an American bourgeoisie with its nationalist sentiments and war of independence. Colonialism in America had required a different rationale: the Savage. Conveniently, as we have seen in the previous chapter, English colonialism had had available to it the savagery of the Irish to draw upon. The notion had traveled well. When the need was for labor, the Irish, the poor of the metropole’s cities, the African and the native American were comfortably herded together under the notion of savagery. When the issue had been the expropriation of the lands of the natives, there was little cause to respect the claims of savages or to comprehend their resistance as anything more than savagery. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 873

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Directly builds on the previous chapter’s discussion of English savagery toward the Irish feeding colonial ideology.

Related

• English colonial ideology toward Native Americans and blacks was recycled from its Irish conquest (similarity 0.85)
• The fictional Englishman justified African slavery as a lesser evil until civilization arrives (similarity 0.84)
• The Irish were the prototype white servants later absorbed into a white racial identity (similarity 0.83)
• Irish colonial history shaped emigrant workers’ relations with English labor (similarity 0.81)
• Sugar cultivation’s labor hunger drove the English slave trade to Africa (similarity 0.81)
• Sugar’s labor demands pushed the English to enslave West Africans (similarity 0.81)
• English colonization discourse fixed racist images of the Irish as savages needing rule. (similarity 0.80)
• English racist ideas about Africans echoed Spanish and Portuguese enslavers rather than emerging locally (similarity 0.80)
• The English colonial repertoire against the Irish was reapplied to Indians and blacks (similarity 0.79)
• English colonies first relied on Irish and German indentured labor, not Africans (similarity 0.79)
• English racialism predated and shaped the proletarianization of the Irish (similarity 0.79)
• English racial ideology excluded Indians from humanity in ways Europeans were not. (similarity 0.79)
• English racial ideology predated proletarianization rather than being invented to divide workers. (similarity 0.79)
• Sugar’s labor demands drove England’s expansion into the West African slave trade. (similarity 0.78)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Racism against Europeans like the Irish predated color-based slavery #corroborates (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1725
• Sugar’s labor demands drove England from Irish to West African slavery #expands (0.70)
• Colonial moral categories coded racialized peoples’ aspirations as dangerous affective excess #expands (0.50) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 572