Colonial daughters received no preparation for their future colonial role.
Evidence
Should we have any doubt as to whether Suze was prepared for this new role, her schoolgirl letter a few months later from boarding school evinces that she was not, as she implores him to permit her to go with her classmates to the colonial exposition in Paris: You will have certainly received [Grand] Maman’s letter where she asked you to allow me to go to Paris, but I thought it kinder of me if I asked you myself. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1491
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims