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Unit 3
Grades 9-10
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French Assimilation: A Promise Kept for a Tiny Few

French colonial policy operated from a genuinely different starting philosophy than British indirect rule. Rooted in Enlightenment universalism and the French Revolution's own rhetoric of equal rights, French assimilation policy held, at least in theory, that colonized Africans…

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