Slavery’s normalization preceded any need to justify it ideologically.

Evidence

In his home, no one around him saw anything wrong with the tyranny. Slavery was as customary as prisons are today. Few could imagine an ordered world without them. Peter Jefferson had accumulated almost sixty captives by the 1750s, which made him the second-largest slaveholder in Albemarle County. Peter preached to his children the importance of self-reliance—oblivious of the contradiction—to which he credited his own success. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 217

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘slavery as customary as prisons’ parallel directly illustrates Kendi’s claim that the policy/practice comes first and ideology follows; usable for placing arguments into the three-way scheme.