Enslavers justified Black slavery by claiming Europeans could not endure tropical labor.

Evidence

Ennes accepts the rationalization that the enslavement of Blacks was necessary since “the European could not stand the sun… . Nor did the Indian submit to the intensive and continuous labor so essential for the progress of these industries.” He continues his racialist constructions by praising “the Paulista strain which definitely took the lead, thanks to the heroic and adventurous spirit (sic) which they had inherited with their Portuguese background.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1933

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows the racialist rationalization that Blacks were uniquely suited to tropical labor, a key ideological prop of the plantation economy.