Trouillot argues that colonization provided the impetus for the transformation of European ethnocentrism into scientific racism, where the enslavement of blacks was rationalized as a result of their inherent biological inferiority. He also argues that the Haitian Revolution was "unthinkable" for the people of the time and even afterwards, as world nations refused to officially acknowledge the new republic. Trouillot argues that the Haitian Revolution was narrated in a way that fit into a white European worldview and uphold its racial and cultural hierarchies. He cites Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Revolutions 1793-1843 as an example of this. He also suggests that specialists on Haiti persist to search for external factors that influenced the revolution rather than accepting and recognizing the internal work of the slaves themselves. He is interested in exploring how the narrative addresses other realms of the "unthinkable" in regards to gender relations.