French colonial tutelage won Africans through generosity while always withholding French freedoms

Evidence

The French, Panty explained, had duties toward the Africans that were like those of a tutor to his ward-” a sometimes shifty, often crude and even cruel ward, but one who needs above all to be, as I like to put it, apprivoise.” Apprivoisement would prove to be a key concept for the new governor general; it implied winning Africans over to civilization through acts of republican generosity (and also republican obligation) while never going so far as to grant them the freedoms of the French. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 377

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines apprivoisement, the key concept of French republican colonial policy — winning over through acts of generosity, never full freedom.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing work on France’s civilizing mission and how ‘republican’ framing rationalized empire.