Colonial officials distrusted the black police force and armed white militias instead
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- Colonial administrators promoted racial division to secure white loyalty and preserve slavery (similarity 0.88)
- Colonial rulers sincerely believed their own religious and self-interested ideology (similarity 0.83)
- Free men of color policed slaves, creating a reliance that threatened revolt. (similarity 0.83)
- Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized (similarity 0.83)
- Historians should read along the colonial grain before reading against it (similarity 0.83)
- French colonial minister rejected liberty for Black people as premature. (similarity 0.82)
- United slave resistance disabled whites’ power to discipline plantations (similarity 0.82)
- Colonial archives were sites of expectation and conjured futures, not mere records. (similarity 0.82)
- Colonial archives functioned as active technologies of rule, not passive records (similarity 0.82)
- Army refusal to police civilians led to dedicated political police forces (similarity 0.81)
- Official colonial correspondence was saturated by speculative, contested street-level voices. (similarity 0.81)
- Colonial archives preserve fantasies of what might yet be, not just events. (similarity 0.81)
- Pre-war scholarship saw Black movements as scattershot local episodes, not one coherent tradition (similarity 0.81)
- Reconstruction historiography erased Black agency and labor exploitation (similarity 0.81)
- Dessalines tore the white from the tricolor to forge a new flag (similarity 0.80)