Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Glossary
- 1 Slavery in the Western Sudan
- 2 Abolition and retreat. Senegal 1848–1876
- 3 Slavery, slave-trading and social revolution
- 4 Senegal after Brière
- 5 Conquest of the Sudan: Desbordes to Archinard
- 6 Senegal in the 1890s
- 7 The end of the conquest
- 8 The imposition of metropolitan priorities on slavery
- 9 With smoke and mirrors: slavery and the conquest of Guinea
- 10 The Banamba Exodus
- 11 French fears and the limits to an emancipation policy
- 12 Looking for the tracks. How they did it
- 13 After the War: renegotiating social relations
- 14 A question of honor
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Titles in the series
7 - The end of the conquest
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Glossary
- 1 Slavery in the Western Sudan
- 2 Abolition and retreat. Senegal 1848–1876
- 3 Slavery, slave-trading and social revolution
- 4 Senegal after Brière
- 5 Conquest of the Sudan: Desbordes to Archinard
- 6 Senegal in the 1890s
- 7 The end of the conquest
- 8 The imposition of metropolitan priorities on slavery
- 9 With smoke and mirrors: slavery and the conquest of Guinea
- 10 The Banamba Exodus
- 11 French fears and the limits to an emancipation policy
- 12 Looking for the tracks. How they did it
- 13 After the War: renegotiating social relations
- 14 A question of honor
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Titles in the series
Summary
… many commandants de cercle are so used bush to life that they make no effort to hide details of administrative life that would appear horrible in France, for example tax rolls in which the merchandise consists only of slaves or lists for rations in which we see under Changes, “shot.”
Charles Monteil… what reward can we give in exchange for services rendered [to African soldiers and auxiliaries] … if not booty, that is to say, slaves … It was necessary for a period of time (that of the conquest, now it would appear completed) to abandon the most precious ideas of civilization and of the pacification of customs, and pushed by the hard law of necessity, submit to the spirit and the customs of Blacks in distributing slaves as a reward for war service.
Administrative reportArchinard was dismissed for disobeying orders and for his continuing deficits. The colonial lobby was as critical as anti-colonial elements in the Chamber because Archinard's wars were not favorable to economic growth. The price, however, of his removal was bitter conflict both in Paris and within the Sudan between the civilians and the military. The new Governor, Albert Grodet, who had been a Governor in the West Indies and a colonial department official, seems to have been chosen because he was believed to be strong enough to stand up to the military. He certainly was not intimidated by them. He was also tactless, though it is doubtful whether tact would have made a difference.
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- Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa , pp. 108 - 125Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998
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