Fear of slave rebellions drove enslavers to support colonizing free Blacks

Evidence

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY had begun with a slave rebellion plot that had caused Virginia enslavers and President Jefferson to think seriously of sending free and enslaved Blacks back to Africa. The slave rebellions kept coming, and nothing accelerated enslavers’ support for the colonization movement more than actual or potential slave rebellions. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 398

Categorization

• XREF: Policy/interest (control of rebellion) preceding ideological justification is exactly the inversion from chapter one that the reader is testing here. — connects to: Fear of loyalist-slavery-invasion convergence pushed southern delegates toward independence — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 133
• QUESTION: This is a strong data point for the reader’s test: does the rebellion-fear causal story confirm that self-interest (not ignorance) drives colonization policy?