Whites sustained intimate family ties to people of color they legally degraded
Evidence
Such febrile talk was a way to finesse the contradictions produced by white patriarchy, of abstracting these relationships from the complicated and contorted relations of power that defined them. … But, as Julien Raimond pointed out, it was racist laws that forced free women of color “to prostitute themselves to whites” rather than marry them. … Indeed free women of color were a major economic, social, and cultural force. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 247 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Raimond blamed racist law on jealous white women and interracial desire; Racist marriage laws drove free women of color into concubinage — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 247; White men were encouraged to exploit black women but not marry them — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 193 (+5 more)
Related
- Racist marriage laws drove free women of color into concubinage (similarity 0.92)
- Racist laws actively shaped the sexual relationships they claimed to condemn. (similarity 0.91)
- Racist marriage laws pushed free women of color into compensated partnerships. (similarity 0.91)
- Raimond blamed racist law on jealous white women and interracial desire (similarity 0.90)
- Wealth passed through free women of color, not their white husbands. (similarity 0.89)
- Racist marriage laws punished white men yet did not stop cohabitation (similarity 0.83)
- Economic motives kept white men marrying into the free-colored elite (similarity 0.79)
- Saint-Domingue’s racial law contradicted its pervasive interracial family ties. (similarity 0.79)
- Economic incentives outweighed official pressure for white men to marry free women of color (similarity 0.78)
- Interracial unions with enslaved women created the free-colored class. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Racist marriage laws drove free women of color into concubinage
#corroborates(0.70) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 247