Slavery’s ideological scaffolding was necessary for its persistence and expansion.

Evidence

All of this was necessary for the persistence of slavery through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and for its meteoric development in the early nineteenth century. The tissue of the nation would develop, coded by its slave past. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 936

Categorization

• XREF: The idea that a nation’s fabric is ‘coded’ by its slave past resonates with later arguments that white supremacy is constitutive, not incidental, to US development.