HISTORY 247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: El Hadj Umar Tall, French Pass, Europeanisation
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French west africa: by 1871, algeria has become a colonial settler state with civil status struggle b/w french republican ideal v. ideas of colonial domination. 1659: st. louis - rst french trading post (claims to territory, but are essentially just merchant enclaves) Rst core of an african elite model of assimilation of french republic of the state into these 4 communes. 1817: french pass legislation to abolish the slave trade move from slave trade" to legitimate trade". Rst main exported commodity: gum-arabic (used for manufacturing. French control of the hinterland to have direct control of the source of the good to bringing the good to trading posts on the coasts. Senegalese ri emen native african military contingent become a force for france to continue inc in territory. Almani samori tour (region near guinea called futa salon") - acts for his own power or a muslim background, but stopped observing islam.
