Leading Enlightenment abolitionists also produced racist ideas

Evidence

Buffon and Voltaire did agree on one thing: they both opposed slavery. Actually, most of the leading Enlightenment intellectuals were producers of racist ideas and abolitionist thought. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 211

Categorization

• QUESTION: Kendi says this stunning conflation pervades the Enlightenment; worth tracking how he further unpacks the coexistence of abolitionism and racism in later chapters.