Slavery narratives are racist whether they begin or end with Black inferiority.

Evidence

From Slavery to Freedom wasn’t wholly antiracist, though. Franklin began with the racist historical conception that slavery had induced Black inferiority. This assertion did at least counteract Jim Crow historians’ claims of enslavement as “a civilizing force.” But both historical pictures were wrong and racist—one started Black people in inferiority before slavery, and the other ended Black people in inferiority after slavery. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 907

Categorization

• XREF: This double-sided indictment — starting in inferiority vs. ending in inferiority — maps directly onto Kendi’s segregationist/assimilationist pair: the ‘civilizing force’ view is assimilationist (deficiency to be fixed), the innate inferiority view is segregationist. — connects to: Calling Hobbes a racist need not be anachronistic. — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 17
• DEFINE: A crisp test for classifying any historical claim about slavery under the three-way scheme.