1. David Brion Davis
1.1. French Revolution
1.1.1. Despife the radical principles of the French Revolution, there was much awareness that the French government, whose bankruptcy ignited the revolutionary crisis, drew crucial revenues from slave colonies; and that millions of French jobs in port citieslike Bordeaux depended on the slave trade and the stability of the slave system.
1.2. Haitian Revolution
1.2.1. the Haitian Revolution reinforced the conviction that emancipation in any form would lead to economic ruin and to the indiscriminate massacre of white population The Haiti revolution is the turning point of the History. It helped us to understand that the New World slavery was being transformed in the Age of Revolution
1.2.2. The revolution in Haiti following the french, was the richest colonies in the America. The white owners were upset with French rule and leaned toward independence. The new legislation was created to deny citizenship to middle and lower class whites. The French gov't had to decide wheather to grant wealthy free person of color citizenship and pushed them toward independence.
2. Knight’s “Racism, Revolution, and Indigenismo
2.1. subjective nature of Indian/mestizo status
2.1.1. because the nature of indian/ mestizo status depends on the range of perceived characteristics, the status is subjective. Depending on the criteria, an individual can be deemed Indian or mestizo. So basically a person with a mestizo eyes can still be deemed as an Indian.
2.2. Indigenismo
2.2.1. It tended to reproduce many of the racist assumptions of the preceding "Westernism". They can shake the bar of their conceptual prison but not escape from it. The Indian or mestizo was supposedly superior to the white. They saw Indians and whites as innately different such as skills and vices. However they do not believe in the differences justified imputations of superiority.
3. Race in Argentina and Cuba
3.1. Argentina is the "most European of Latin America" is to hide the racial history of this community. The slaves were first brought to Argentina and was not abolished till the 1853.
3.2. Cuban components did not fundamentally differ from a racial one: saw in the three races-white, black, and yellow, each with its own psychological character-the basic explanation of the still not fully formed cuban type. mentioning the positive effect Methodism had on North American blacks, even thought of importing "more progressive" religions to eliminate fetishism.
3.3. The little war of 1912
3.3.1. "perpetual and implacable struggle between races" that never could mix. It is against any black rebellions and advocated the creation of a national secret police and militias based on the U.S. model.