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After four weeks of Prof's Mac Curry formidable course - thank you Prof - and a life long reflecting on this topic above, I have come to basic basic questions that will lay the first stage of my attempt to enunciate the contours of an answers, or answers, when dealing with historical debates.

and this is what I have come to generate as a general framemind for some of our most formidable and central question here  : why did slavery was widely used in the New New Republic but even strengthened through its first 1787 Constitution?

I think, one aspect of it is about the genesis of knowledge. I think,  before reaching many conclusion, we should try and understand a process which involves not only societal processes, that is class status conscience one but the very nature of generating knowledge

Knowledge is deeply contextual. Before the great democratic upheaval movements of the end of the 18th C and the 19th C. and on, knowledge was the priviledge of the elite. So ideas were their private garden.

This is never to claim that before the Enlightement, there was no relecting on ideas, issues, life, death, poverty, piety, religion and science but a very few of them had the Tools to handle them.

Furthemore, we are in an ever changing world where limits were more or less permeable; today they are almost universily permeable but they know many setbacks as well : what we call cultural communities withing societies.

this long intro to say the following : in a midley of ideas, old and new, of acts, old and new, of inventions of and new, of upheavals, old and new, there is no right and wrong, or even no clear issue over an unclear issue; but a medley of discussions over issues that the people involved in defining them, are permeated by many elements stemming from many elements that form a society. Hence, the ambivalence on slavery here...

Take for exemple the idea of wrong doing and handling the fate of animals.

all the possible scppes of opinions do exist today on that very important issue, I would even say, and it is better understandable here to use this term : COexist. Many ideas coexist around an decision to be taken. The one, or the Ones which will have the upper hand over the others is extremely difficult to know afront.

What is the most chocking though is the following. In an everchanging world where some of the very basis of humanity have been recoginazed all over the world and accepted as the basis to form the backgroung of a civilization, the sudden appearance of a movement, completely foreign to it can and deos have to puzzle us....

when one idea is formating - like a nine months birth - in the woumb of a society and becomes an entity in itself, after long labor nights, why deos this very idea sometimes seem to want to go back to the woumb and destroy its very essence : this is what happened to Nazi germany, a phenomenon that we will now understand fully, if ever, for the next hundred years at least.