The planter class manufactured racial doctrine to excuse its own laziness

Evidence

“[I]n order to maintain its income without sacrifice or exertion, the South fell back on a doctrine of racial differences which it asserted made higher intelligence and increased efficiency impossible for Negro labour. Wishing such an excuse for lazy indulgence, the planter easily found, invented and proved it. His subservient religious leaders reverted to the ‘Curse of Canaan’; his pseudo-scientists gathered and supplemented all available doctrines of race inferiority; his scattered schools and pedantic periodicals repeated these legends, until for the average planter born after 1840 it was impossible not to believe that all valid laws in psychology, economics and politics stopped with the Negro race.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1706

Categorization

• XREF: Direct evidence for the materialist origin of racial ideology that underpins the rise of the Black radical tradition.