Raimond blamed white men’s sexual desire for colonial racial hierarchy
Evidence
For Raimond, the response was simple: sex. Early in the colony’s history, he argued, the European men who came to the colonies “burning with the desire to make a fortune” but “weakened by the heat of the climate, often sick, and deprived of the aid wives of their own color could have given them,” turned to “African women.” These slave women cared for them assiduously, hoping to gain “the greatest recompense, their liberty.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 219
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- QUESTION: Raimond’s causal story (sex as origin of color hierarchy) — worth testing against the administrative-category explanation in 216.
Related
- Economic motives kept white men marrying into the free-colored elite (similarity 0.83)
- Interracial unions with enslaved women created the free-colored class. (similarity 0.82)
- White women’s jealousy drove the expansion of racist colonial legislation. (similarity 0.81)
- Raimond blamed racist law on jealous white women and interracial desire (similarity 0.81)
- Economic incentives outweighed official pressure for white men to marry free women of color (similarity 0.80)
- Colonial administrators deliberately engineered racial hierarchy to secure white loyalty. (similarity 0.79)