White-slavery outrage coexisted with rising Black slavery

Evidence

With no sense of irony, white slavery was denounced at the moment when US slavery was on the rise with West African captors having no hope of return. Few of these narratives questioned the hypocrisy at work. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 215

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article’s throughline: moral outrage targeted at a foreign other while the domestic version of the same wrong goes unremarked. — connects to: Genteel abolitionist opposition coexisted with slavery-dependent fortunes — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard…, 1051; Barbary captivity tales denounced white slavery while US chattel slavery rose. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 215
• SEED: Article angle: selective moral outrage as colonial technology — the captivity narrative genre as a case study in how empathy is rationed by race.

Broader Connections

• Genteel abolitionist opposition coexisted with slavery-dependent fortunes #corroborates (0.75) — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1051