Jefferson framed British war policy as trading away American liberty for Africans’ lives.

Evidence

The English crown, Jefferson wrote, which had prevented Americans from abolishing slavery, was now freeing and arming enslaved Africans to maintain British enslavement over Americans, “thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which [the king] urged them to commit against the LIVES of another.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 277

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the rhetoric of self-serving contradiction — Jefferson exploits the British freeing slaves for rhetorical gain while preserving his own institution.