On Dec 4, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
> Re: Do you really think the ending of slavery had
> nothing to do with agitation in the streets? Really?
>
> [WS:] It depends what you mean by "nothing." If "nothing" means
> "neither a
> sufficient nor a necessary condition" then yes, street agitation had
> nothing
> to do with ending slavery (and many other progressive reforms.)
At the height of the Great Revolution, the high tide of "street agitation," the Convention decreed the end of slavery. A few years later, after repeated whiffs of Bonaparte's grapeshot had cleared the agitators off the streets, Napoleon reestablished it.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos