Polygenesis gained acceptance as an explanation for visible inequalities

Evidence

But the concept of different creation stories and different species started making sense to more and more people in the late eighteenth century as they tried to come to grips with racial difference. How else could they explain such glaring differences in skin color, in culture, in wealth, and in the degree of freedom people enjoyed? — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 264

Categorization

• QUESTION: Kendi would read ‘trying to come to grips with racial difference’ as post-hoc rationalization of policy; but does the polygenesis acceptance itself support the idea-first model the reader wants to test?