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Scramble 17: Brazza, Fashoda, and Cesaire’s Discours – France in the Scramble concluded

The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

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The Conscription of Ports in France

Braza returns to congo as an investigator of conditions there. He sees all kinds of hohorific stuff despite their best efforts. Pay was in kind, and justice was arbitrary. The only code of honor was to lie about what was being done. So pretty much pure, a pure exploitation through the violent conscription of port s and people to go and get the rubber.

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