Postwar export growth came largely from forced crop cultivation

Evidence

This assessment is also based on a comparison of the economic performance of the federation before and after World War I. After the war, exports from West Africa increased substantially; although several factors account for this improvement, one important reason appears to have been the administration’s new emphasis on forcing Africans to grow the desired crops. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 1025

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to understanding republican empire’s economic coercion of West Africans — the forced-cultivation thread developed later in the book.