Persuasive personal charm could almost derail an established antislavery resolve.

Evidence

In 1760, Woolman traveled to the Rhode Island homes of some of colonial America’s wealthiest slave-traders. Their “smooth conduct” and “superficial friendship” nearly lured him away from antislavery. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 224

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: People may revolt whenever they judge oppression grave enough to warrant it. — , Second-Treatise-of-Government-1645716289, 3337; Personal virtue cannot remedy injustice embedded in the situation itself — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1974; Oppressed people can internalize the oppressor’s hatred and turn it against themselves. (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: People may revolt whenever they judge oppression grave enough to warrant it. — , Second-Treatise-of-Government-1645716289, 3337; Personal virtue cannot remedy injustice embedded in the situation itself — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1974; Oppressed people can internalize the oppressor’s hatred and turn it against themselves. (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Personal virtue cannot remedy injustice embedded in the situation itself #complicates (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1974
• Oppressed people can internalize the oppressor’s hatred and turn it against themselves. #complicates (0.72)