Jefferson counseled reconciling with slavery rather than pressing for emancipation

Evidence

In 1814, Edward Coles, the personal secretary of President James Madison, asked Jefferson to arouse public sentiment against slavery. Jefferson balked, using the excuse of old age. The seventy-one-year-old advised Coles to reconcile himself with enslavement and only promote emancipation in a way that did not offend anyone. Ironically, the inoffensive solution that Jefferson offered in Notes, and that he tried to execute once as president, was about be adopted by a new generation. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 380

Categorization

• XREF: Jefferson here models exactly the assimilationist gradualism Kendi attacks — ‘do not offend anyone’ is the hallmark of the position the reader wants to recognize and name.