White Americans fear justified black vengeance as much as divine judgment

Evidence

Alongside the moral judgment has always been the fear that black people will exact their own vengeance—and that they’ll be right to do so. Jefferson was concerned with the moral wrongness of bondage, but he also worried about black slave insurrection in the United States—a kind of deep and pervasive fear and paranoia about possible revenge. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 237

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Orientalism operates like the creation of Blackness as projected white-American fear — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 217