American revolutionaries opposed their own enslavement while judging only blacks deserving of it

Evidence

See F. Nwabueze Okoye, “Chattel Slavery as the Nightmare of the American Revolutionaries,” William and Mary Quarterly 37, no. 1 (January 1980): 3-28, for a most acute discussion of the paradoxes that bemuddled American nationalists whose outrage “stemmed from their conviction that only black people in America were deserving of servile status” (p. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1974

Categorization

• XREF: This paradox of revolutionary rhetoric coexisting with slavery connects to the classic tension Robinson frames in Black Marxism and to wider American-history discussions. — connects to: Americans glorified liberty radiating outward more than receiving the oppressed; Americans condemned white enslavement while justifying African slavery on racial theology. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 510