Jefferson opposed both slavery and abolition simultaneously

Evidence

With no intention to publish, Jefferson unabashedly expressed his views on Black people, and in particular on potentially freed Black people. “Incorporating the [freed] blacks into the state” was out of the question, he declared. “Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions, which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.” This hodgepodge of thoughts was classic Jefferson, classically both antislavery and anti-abolition—with a segregationist dose of nature’s distinctions, and an antiracist dose acknowledging White prejudice and discrimination. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 282

Categorization

• DEFINE: Jefferson’s argument is a live example of the antiracist-segregationist blend: he names white prejudice as a cause while also appealing to natural distinctions — both available to readers practicing placement.