Because proslavery ideology was so intent upon naturalizing black oppression, it generated the fantasy of blacks being contented with their plight. This fantasy was one wherein blacks were desire-less beings, or beings whose only desire was to satisfy the desires of their masters. This delusion allowed whites to repress two things from their consciousness: the violence involved in the maintenance of black docility and the pathos of the subjugated longing for freedom that stirred in the slaves’ consciousness.
