Virginia lawmakers treated slave resistance as requiring removal of free Blacks.

Evidence

Slavery had to continue, and its natural by-product—resistance—had to stop. So Virginia lawmen took Jefferson up on his proposal, asking him to find a foreign home for the state’s free Blacks. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 384

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the Grafting piece’s theme of how policy responds to resistance — though more directly in the channel