Latin American mixed offspring inherited while their enslaved mothers were excluded

Evidence

In contrast to the US, mixed offspring were freed in Latin America, even as their mothers remained enslaved and ensnared in desperately unequal and iniquitous relationships. Indeed, “mottled” offspring, not to put too crude an exclamation on the practice and product, were written into paternal property inheritance, while their slave mothers were excluded, thus creating as much a bifurcated regime of wealth accumulation as psycho-emotional identification and its attendant melancholia. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1082 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mixed-race children were freed and inherited property while their slave mothers stayed enslaved — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1082; Matrilineal inheritance of slave status made black women’s breeding economically central; Colonial rule enforced privilege hierarchy through legal control of mixed-race parentage — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 976

Broader Connections

• Mixed-race children were freed and inherited property while their slave mothers stayed enslaved #expands (0.96) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1082