Haitian Revolution Without a Revolution?

Can you imagine a world where it's possible for the major merchants and landowners in Sandomang to willingly abolish slavery? Absent a revolution, I really don't see that happening. And then more to the point, was it in fact better to make all those slaves wait another 30, 40 or 50 years just because we think it might have been better for their freedom to have come without a bloody revolution? "The crime of enslavement is so morally intolerable, and so fundamentally anathema to the human condition," he says.