Plantation economics generated the biological dogma of African inferiority

Evidence

The belief that Africans were naturally capable of working on plantations in the full heat of the sun, were physically stronger than Europeans and intellectually inferior (it was suggested they did not mature beyond the age of a teenage white person), arose primarily because it suited the economic needs of plantation slavery. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1859 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial inferiority complexes derive from economic conditions, not genetics; Racial beliefs about African physiology served plantation slavery’s economic needs — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1859; Fanon derived the black inferiority complex from economic subordination and racial hierarchy — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1338 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial beliefs about African physiology served plantation slavery’s economic needs #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1859