French wives overseas were tasked with reproducing French civilization at home

Evidence

Who can describe the desperation of the little Hottentots whose parents, in the hope of making real Frenchmen of them, transplant them to France too early? From one day to the next they are locked into boarding schools, these free, joyful children, “for your own good,” as their weeping parents tell them. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 273 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial parents send children abroad to be made into Frenchmen — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 273; French colonial women were assigned motherhood as their first vocation

Related

• Colonial parents send children abroad to be made into Frenchmen (similarity 0.90)
• French colonial women were assigned motherhood as their first vocation (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• French colonial women were assigned motherhood as their first vocation #expands (0.80)
• Colonial parents send children abroad to be made into Frenchmen #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 273