Racial repression shifted form in lockstep with Blacks’ changing labor roles under capitalism

Evidence

Consequent to this power, the plantocracy had established a legal structure that effectively eliminated the civil rights of the nine million Black and poor white workers to be found in the South in the mid-nineteenth century. This perversion of the apparatus of representative democracy had survived the Civil War and the Reconstruction, and had persisted into the next century despite the challenges of Populism, organized labor, political radicalism, the Depression, and the mass Black movement of the UNIA. Federalism had evolved into states’ rights, the ideological dressing for first, slavery, and then the Black Codes, Jim Crow, and more contemporary forms of repression. Each shift in the apparatus of repression had been associated with the changing forms of exploitation as Blacks moved from being slaves to being sharecroppers and peons, and finally, to being proletariats or a labor reserve. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 955

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that each legal-racial apparatus maps to a production role (slave-sharecropper-proletarian/reserve) parallels the Frankfurt School material on how domination adapts to changing economic forms.
• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the ‘On Sacrifice’ framing of how a legally entrenched ruling caste (plantocracy) persists across surface political changes.