Colonial development rhetoric served to extract maximum labor from Africans

Evidence

European colonization a force for progress? Progress, when we have only one means for bringing blacks to our side: to stimulate artificial needs that contribute only to their unhappiness, their eternal damnation? … Poor black humanity. Let us at least have the frankness to admit that if we take such an interest in you, it is because you appear to us to constitute an inexhaustible reservoir of labor … We intend to make the African races “yield” the maximum … But what do science, justice, goodness and especially progress have to do with any of this? — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 196

Categorization

• CANDY: A crisp quotation expressing the extraction-beneath-civilizing view.
• XREF: connects to: Colonial development rhetoric masked systematic resource extraction from native lands. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 78