France claimed to lead the antislavery movement ahead of Britain
Evidence
With these measures in place, the federal authorities did not hesitate to claim that they were now āat the forefront of the antislavery movement in Africa.ā French West Africa was ahead of its British neighbors in particular, whom the author of Dakarās report on slavery, Georges Deherme, accused of making Franceās task more difficult by harboring slavers and āenslavingā peoples āemigrating to avoid the demands of civilizing freedom.ā ā Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republicanā¦, 339
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- QUESTION: To what extent was this claim of being āahead of Britainā accurate, versus propaganda?
Related
- French West Africa claimed leadership over British colonies in antislavery enforcement. (similarity 0.92)
- French conquest itself drove displaced Africans into new slavery that abolition rhetoric masked. (similarity 0.81)
- French conquest itself drove Africans into slavery while France posed as liberator. (similarity 0.80)
- Schools were not Franceās preferred instrument for transforming African society (similarity 0.79)
- French conquest itself drove displaced Africans into slavery while condemning it (similarity 0.79)
- French republican ideology was more egalitarian before 1914 than after. (similarity 0.78)