Forcibly transported Africans became citizens by their coerced relocation

Evidence

In this context, perhaps the proper reproach against the civilian administration is not that it paid lip service to the principle of abolition while in fact preserving a servile system deeply embedded in African social mores; rather, it is that the French failed to take any responsibility for exacerbating slavery in West Africa during the conquest. By constantly describ- ing slavery as a barbaric African practice and France as a liberating power, Dakar effectively masked the Republic’s role in driving ever greater numbers of displaced Africans into involuntary servitude in the 188o’s and 189o’s. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 350 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

Related

• French conquest itself drove displaced Africans into slavery while condemning it (similarity 0.85)
• French conquest itself drove displaced Africans into new slavery that abolition rhetoric masked. (similarity 0.83)
• Forced transport across the Atlantic made the colony the Africans’ new birthplace (similarity 0.83)
• French conquest itself drove Africans into slavery while France posed as liberator. (similarity 0.82)
• French non-enforcement of abolition was a political accommodation to slave-owning chiefs (similarity 0.79)
• Forced African conscription discredited France’s civilizing mission in West Africa (similarity 0.78)
• Republicans saw no contradiction between democracy and colonialism because they deemed Africans barbarians. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Forced transport across the Atlantic made the colony the Africans’ new birthplace #corroborates (0.80)
• French conquest itself drove displaced Africans into slavery while condemning it #contradicts (0.75) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 350
• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture #complicates (0.60)
• Racial dehumanization intensified precisely as enslaved Africans assimilated colonial culture #complicates (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 599