Reading up on the attitudes of 18th century French abolitionist, what always comes up is that none of them were for a wholesale abolition of slavery. Not Condorcet or even the Abbe Gregoire who thought that the black slaves were not yet worthy of citizenship or civilization and at most, they wished for abolishing the slave trade and that the end of slavery should be a very gradual process guided by the civilized whit-I mean, Frenchman.
So, would it be possible for slavery to be slowly phased out over the years? Is that an actually realistic premise or is slavery just bound to blow itself up from not wanting to die?
So, would it be possible for slavery to be slowly phased out over the years? Is that an actually realistic premise or is slavery just bound to blow itself up from not wanting to die?