Enslavers spread contented-slave myths while demanding harsher laws to restrain rebellion.

Evidence

A rebellious slave was extraordinary—real, but not really representative. During the final months of 1800, enslavers blasted this racist mantra of contented slaves and then hypocritically demanded more weapons, more organization, and more sophisticated laws to restrain them. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 383

Categorization

• XREF: This directly instantiates Kendi’s core thesis that racist ideas (contented slaves) are produced to justify racist policy (harsher repressive laws) — a clean textbook case of the inversion.