Liberation announced from without produced psychoses in black slaves rather than transformation.

Evidence

The upheaval reached the Negroes from without. The black man was acted upon. Values that had not been created by his actions, values that had not been born of the systolic tide of his blood, danced in a hued whirl round him. The upheaval did not make a difference in the Negro. He went from one way of life to another, but not from one life to another. Just as when one tells a much improved patient that in a few days he will be discharged from the hospital, he thereupon suffers a relapse, so the announcement of the liberation of the black slaves produced psychoses and sudden deaths. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 796 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The reactions and the behavior patterns to which the arrival of the European in Madagascar gave rise were not tacked on to a pre-existing set. There was no addition to the earlier psychic whole. If, for instance, Martians undertook to colonize the earth men—not to initiate them into Martian culture but to colonize them—we should be doubtful of the persistence of any earth personality. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Blacks are confined to a sterile zone of nonbeing without access to genuine upheaval.; Emancipation granted from without caused psychoses and sudden deaths among freed slaves — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 796; Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347 (+3 more)

Related

• Emancipation granted from without caused psychoses and sudden deaths among freed slaves (similarity 0.91)
• Blacks are confined to a sterile zone of nonbeing without access to genuine upheaval. (similarity 0.81)
• Slavery’s meaning was psychological subjugation beyond mere economic exploitation (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.79)
• Revolution strips away the mental handicaps produced by 130 years of colonial oppression (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Emancipation granted from without caused psychoses and sudden deaths among freed slaves #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 796
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #responds-to (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Slavery’s meaning was psychological subjugation beyond mere economic exploitation #expands (0.55)
• The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance #complicates (0.50)