French-appointed canton chiefs enriched themselves at their subjects’ expense

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• France eradicated African languages, slavery, customary law, and chieftaincies to spread republicanism. (similarity 0.82)
• Imposed canton chiefs’ abuses drove the western Volta revolt (similarity 0.82)
• French-appointed canton chiefs routinely enriched themselves by abusing their subjects. (similarity 0.82)
• France’s early mercantilist state created a bureaucracy that long outlived its productive purpose. (similarity 0.81)
• Rural France chose Parisian hegemony over local autonomy to end the old regime (similarity 0.81)
• French voters preferred representatives who served their special interests over statesmen (similarity 0.81)
• France could not maintain free and slave colonies within sight of each other (similarity 0.81)
• Slaves who fought for France at Cartagena gained their freedom (similarity 0.81)
• France tolerated slavery in protectorates to keep chiefs loyal (similarity 0.80)
• Louverture reduced French metropolitan authority to a powerless facade. (similarity 0.80)
• French colonial women were assigned motherhood as their first vocation (similarity 0.80)
• France stripped canton chiefs of tax collection, delegating it to village chiefs (similarity 0.80)
• France’s pacification mission triggered the war and Louverture’s rise (similarity 0.80)
• French indiscriminate killing drove slaves toward the insurgent camps (similarity 0.79)