Slaveholders deliberately sought alliance with Northern white labor on color caste

Evidence

The slaveholders were aware that the harsh conditions faced by free Negroes in the North helped keep their laborers down on the farm; hence they did their best to publicize the cold reception that awaited any slave so foolish as to run away from the security of the plantation. They did more than observe events in the North: because they had a strong interest in maintaining the free Negro there in a condition as much like slavery as possible, they sought an alliance with Northern white labor based on the defense of color caste. — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 354

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial oppression enlists the oppressor’s laboring classes in enforcing rule.; White planters rejected free-colored allies because prejudice sustained slavery — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 214; White labor’s approval of color caste subordinated colored labor to white profits worldwide — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 950 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• White workers worldwide suffer because they endorsed the racial caste capitalism built on slavery #expands (0.88) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 950
• White labor’s approval of color caste subordinated colored labor to white profits worldwide #expands (0.85) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 950
• White planters rejected free-colored allies because prejudice sustained slavery #qualifies (0.82) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 214
• Free Northern states legally barred Black people from voting, juries, land, and residence #corroborates (0.82) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1265
• Northern whites expressed abundant support for segregation #corroborates (0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 979
• Postwar Northern unions expelled Black workers from skilled trades #corroborates (0.75)
• Black uplift worsened rather than eased Northern racial animosity #corroborates (0.72) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 411