Representation determined whether colonized peoples could legally be enslaved
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- Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized (similarity 0.81)
- French colonial law originally granted freed people full citizenship without racial distinction (similarity 0.80)
- Some slaves demanded liberty by citing the Rights of Man. (similarity 0.80)
- Historians should read along the colonial grain before reading against it (similarity 0.80)
- Enslaved Africans vastly outnumbered whites and free-coloreds in Saint-Domingue (similarity 0.80)
- United slave resistance disabled whites’ power to discipline plantations (similarity 0.79)
- French colonial minister rejected liberty for Black people as premature. (similarity 0.79)
- Educated Muslim Africans fit neither colonial legal category, exposing the republic’s contradiction. (similarity 0.79)
- Colonial administrators promoted racial division to secure white loyalty and preserve slavery (similarity 0.79)
- Eighteenth-century slave revolts were led mainly by African-born slaves (similarity 0.79)
- Both Egyptians and British failed to conceptualize southern Sudanese former slaves politically (similarity 0.78)
- Even anticolonial Egyptian nationalists reproduced demeaning stereotypes of Sudanese slaves. (similarity 0.78)
- Colonial officials distrusted the black police force and armed white militias instead (similarity 0.78)
- Slave origins determined which language hierarchies they occupied in Egypt (similarity 0.78)