Jefferson declined to join the ACS out of partisan and religious distaste

Evidence

But the ACS never attracted its greatest patron saint: Thomas Jefferson. The former president only tracked the development of the ACS from afar. He was suspicious of the organization because he could not stand the Federalists and the Presbyterians behind it. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 417

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth checking: does Kendi elsewhere present this as Jefferson’s racism being driven more by partisan identity than by sincere ideological commitment?
• XREF: connects to: Jefferson declined to openly defend his polygenesis views in retirement — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 354
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Jefferson declined to openly defend his polygenesis views in retirement — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 354