Pro- and anti-slavery advocates could share the same racist rationale for opposing colonization

Evidence

These antislavery and proslavery advocates agreed on much more. Like Garrison, Dew considered colonization to be an evil and impractical idea. Black people, “though vastly inferior in the scale of civilization,” and though unable to work “except by compulsion,” still constituted the cheap labor force that the southern economy needed, Dew wrote. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 465

Categorization

• XREF: Instantiates Kendi’s core thesis that racist ideas serve economic self-interest across ideological camps — connects directly to the book’s central argument about policy driving ideas.