English colonial ideology toward Native Americans and blacks was recycled from its Irish conquest

Evidence

The adventurers to Ireland claimed that their primary purpose was to reform the Irish and … “to reduce that countrey to civilitie and the maners of England.” It is evident, however, that no determined effort was ever made to reform the Irish, but rather that at the least pretext—generally resistance to the English—they were dismissed as a “wicked and faythles peopoll” and put to the sword. This formula was repeated in the treatment of the Indians in the New World We also find the same indictments being brought against the Indians, and later the blacks, in the New World that had been brought against the Irish. It was argued that the Indians were an unsettled people who did not make proper use of their land and thus could be justly deprived of it by the more enterprising English. Both Indians and blacks, like the Irish, were accused of being idle, lazy, dirty, and licentious, but few serious efforts were made to draw any of them from their supposed state of degeneracy. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 425

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: This is a foundational origin of the Black radical tradition’s enemy: the colonial ideological template first forged in Ireland. Connects to later chapters on how this racial order shapes the tradition’s development and decline.
• SHARE: A history colleague focused on Atlantic slavery origins would appreciate this direct Ireland-to-America ideological pipeline.

Related

• The English colonial repertoire against the Irish was reapplied to Indians and blacks (similarity 0.92)
• English colonial ideology of savagery extended from the Irish to Africans and natives (similarity 0.85)
• Anti-Black racism bled back to Ireland even as Irish-Americans whitened. (similarity 0.83)
• English racial ideology excluded Indians from humanity in ways Europeans were not. (similarity 0.83)
• Irish colonial history shaped emigrant workers’ relations with English labor (similarity 0.81)
• English colonization discourse fixed racist images of the Irish as savages needing rule. (similarity 0.80)
• English racialism predated and shaped the proletarianization of the Irish (similarity 0.79)
• The Irish were the prototype white servants later absorbed into a white racial identity (similarity 0.79)
• English colonies first relied on Irish and German indentured labor, not Africans (similarity 0.79)
• Historians deny that English contempt for the Irish poor was itself racism. (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-imperialist Black radicals still romanticized England as a correctionable ideal. (similarity 0.78)