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For some slaves, freedom may have meant an experience of loss more than of joy: loss of housing, ways and means of physical survival, social relations, and sense of purpose. How large was the number of freed slaves with this kind of experience? How serious was their situation? Which factors were responsible for this experience - and did the suddenness (i.e. lack of time for transition) have anything to do with it? If so, does the variable of time have to be reflected with relation to the immediatism that is so characteristic of abolitionism? This would raise questions like: (a) would a slower and more pragmatic emancipation have been possible/preferable to the immediatist approach in politics? Does theoretical abolitionism have a responsibility for the negative consequences of liberation? (b) has evidence of negative consequences of abolition been suppressed for ideological reasons? (c) could such a censure, if it existed, be justified in order not to tarnish the positive image of abolition as such? | |||
==== Conditions of successful moral discourses ==== | ==== Conditions of successful moral discourses ==== | ||