Evolue resentment over second-class treatment defeated the mulatto deputy in 1914 elections

Evidence

The evolues sought to reverse the impact of these measures as well, by asserting that they were, and always had been, French citizens, regardless of whether they accepted the Civil Code. Their growing resentment was responsible for an event that Dakar did not think possible, even as it warned Paris in 1913 about a possibly turbulent electoral campaign: the evolues formed a strong enough coalition to defeat the incumbent mulatto deputy from Senegal to Parliament, Fran~ois Carpot, and to elect in February 1914 one of their own, Blaise Diagne. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 533

Categorization

• XREF: The assertion of French citizenship despite rejecting the Civil Code echoes the reader’s interest in how republican citizenship was claimed by the colonized — a key mechanic of forced republicanism in West Africa.