Carde extended mise en valeur logic to Africans’ bodies and habits

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Along with renewed emphasis upon public works, however, Carde stressed the need to consider the health, education, and working habits of the African producer-what Carde called the mise en valeur of West Africa’s human resources: In all likelihood, the greatest portion of our future exports will come from the native producer, living less and less off of uncultivated produce and more and more off the product of his own labor … — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 764