Freed people adopted French rhetoric that emancipation had been a mistake

Evidence

In her bid to preserve her own freedom, Masson used a language similar to that of many French officials, suggesting that the time of freedom had been an aberration, a period of tumult and violence that was best left behind. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 985

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Parallels the speech/reasoning move in ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ of colonized/subordinated people adopting the colonizer’s moral language to secure practical standing.
• XREF: connects to: Freed people adopted French official rhetoric to secure their freedom under reoccupation — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 985
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Freed people adopted French official rhetoric to secure their freedom under reoccupation — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 985