Garrison deferred Black political equality until after economic and educational development

Evidence

Defending Louisiana’s readmission and Lincoln, William Lloyd Garrison argued back that suffrage was a “conventional right … not to be confused with the natural right” to liberty. Political equality was bound to come someday, he explained, but only after Black “industrial and educational development.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 621

Categorization

• DEFINE: Garrison’s conventional-vs-natural right distinction, with suffrage deferred pending development, is the quintessential assimilationist sequencing argument — timing of equality as a core assimilationist move.
• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s stated goal of testing whether assimilationism is racist — here Garrison, the great abolitionist, deploys a staged-equality argument virtually identical to the gradualism antiracists oppose.