Racist marriage laws drove free women of color into concubinage

Evidence

Such febrile talk was a way to finesse the contradictions produced by white patriarchy, of abstracting these relationships from the complicated and contorted relations of power that defined them. … But, as Julien Raimond pointed out, it was racist laws that forced free women of color “to prostitute themselves to whites” rather than marry them. … Indeed free women of color were a major economic, social, and cultural force. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 247

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the moral-panic-as-power-signaling analysis in my immodesty-dress essay: what elites frame as female seduction here is really a legal structure denying marriage and property rights. — connects to: Raimond blamed racist law on jealous white women and interracial desire; Whites sustained intimate family ties to people of color they legally degraded; British capitulation stripped free people of color of their full racial equality (+9 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 247

Broader Connections

• White men were encouraged to exploit black women but not marry them #expands (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 193
• Nineteenth-century black women endured double enslavement by race and sex #expands (0.60)
• Sexism and racism jointly founded the American social order from colonization #expands (0.55)
• Whites feared legally sanctioned racial mixing of either sex #corroborates (0.50) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 192
• British capitulation stripped free people of color of their full racial equality #expands (0.40)