White women’s jealousy drove the expansion of racist colonial legislation.

Evidence

But for the increasing number of French women who came to the colony in the second half of the eighteenth century and were jilted by white men in favor of women of color, jealousy quickly turned to racial hatred. This animus, he argued, drove the expansion of racist laws. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 223

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• QUESTION: Raimond’s gendered causal claim is plausible but self-serving—worth checking against historians’ accounts of who actually pushed the 1760s-70s decrees.
• XREF: Plausibly connects to feminist readings of colonialism where European women act as agents of racial boundary-drawing.

Related

• Jilted French women’s jealousy drove the expansion of racist legal codes (similarity 0.92)
• Raimond blamed racist law on jealous white women and interracial desire (similarity 0.86)
• Raimond blamed white men’s sexual desire for colonial racial hierarchy (similarity 0.81)
• Racist marriage laws drove free women of color into concubinage (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Raimond blamed racist law on jealous white women and interracial desire #corroborates (0.85)
• Colonial fears about mixed-race revolt drove legal barriers separating French and Africans. #expands (0.60) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 600
• White frustration with the Negro drives white prohibitions against blacks #corroborates (0.50)
• Racial imperialism let white women act as oppressors of black people despite sexism #complicates (0.50)