Enslaved Africans vastly outnumbered whites and free-coloreds in Saint-Domingue
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- France eradicated African languages, slavery, customary law, and chieftaincies to spread republicanism. (similarity 0.82)
- Free men of color policed slaves, creating a reliance that threatened revolt. (similarity 0.81)
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- Eighteenth-century slave revolts were led mainly by African-born slaves (similarity 0.80)
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- Representation determined whether colonized peoples could legally be enslaved (similarity 0.80)
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- The politique des races collapsed because village chiefs were French inventions, not African reality (similarity 0.80)
- French indiscriminate killing drove slaves toward the insurgent camps (similarity 0.79)
- French colonial minister rejected liberty for Black people as premature. (similarity 0.79)
- Colonial administrators promoted racial division to secure white loyalty and preserve slavery (similarity 0.79)
- African conscription in World War I triggered postwar racialization and reaction. (similarity 0.79)
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