Historicist racial thought fueled abolition while naturalism underpinned slavery

Evidence

Where naturalism underpinned the institution of slavery, historicist racial presuppositions mostly fueled abolitionist movements, proliferating as common sense in the wake of slavery’s formal demise, promoted as civilized moral conscience in the face of insistent and persistent naturalist regimes. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 108

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Liberal racial historicism held in cities while naturalist racism dominated frontiers — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1414

Related

• Liberal racial historicism held in cities while naturalist racism dominated frontiers (similarity 0.83)
• Racial historicism makes racial structures invisible and absolves individuals of responsibility for them (similarity 0.83)
• Historicist regimes govern race by constituting it through law itself (similarity 0.82)
• Racial governance splits between naturalist and historicist modes into distinct policy forms (similarity 0.82)
• Racial historicism replaced biological inferiority claims with cultural poverty excuses (similarity 0.82)
• Racial historicism held sway in colonial cities while naturalism dominated the frontier (similarity 0.81)
• Racial historicism and the rule of law co-evolved as instruments of dominance (similarity 0.81)
• Naturalist law legitimizes repression while historicist law constitutes racial order (similarity 0.80)
• Liberal segregationists justified racial hierarchy by cultural historicism, not biology. (similarity 0.80)
• Slavery functioned as the formal mechanism maintaining white racial hierarchy even for poor whites. (similarity 0.80)
• Slavery’s labor demands produced juridical racism rather than racial attitudes producing slavery. (similarity 0.79)
• Historicist racism grants colonized peoples only potential, not actual, universal agency (similarity 0.79)
• Historicist racial argumentation is harder to dismiss than biologized racism (similarity 0.79)
• Racial theory rationalized conquest only after the founding violence was complete. (similarity 0.78)
• Classical liberalism historically promoted racial reasoning as central to modern moral sense. (similarity 0.78)