Slavery’s prosperity suppressed antislavery and assimilationist thought

Evidence

THE NEW LIFE and lands of slavery, and the new crops and cash from slavery, sucked the life out of the antislavery movement during Jefferson’s presidency in the early 1800s. Assimilationist ideas, especially monogenesis, also faded. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 350

Categorization

• XREF: Directly illustrates Kendi’s causal inversion — material interests (slavery’s profits) precede and suppress ideas — the core claim the reader is testing.