Slavery abolition rhetoric justified renewed French colonial expansion in Africa

Evidence

At the same time, the emancipation of Africans from “aristocratic tyranny” and the abolition of slavery became important justifications for renewed colonial expansion in West Mrica under the Third Republic. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 330

After r 88o, any slave who reached French territory under direct administration in Senegal was now to be freed. At the same time, the emancipation of Africans from “aristocratic tyranny” and the abolition of slavery became important justifications for renewed colonial expansion in West Mrica under the Third Republic. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 330

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reading goal on French civilizing mission ideology as the ideological engine for expansion.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 330