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Oct 27, 2026
Heide CastañedaGUEST
So, you know, of course, Amazigh people have been in North Africa for centuries, really time immemorial.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
But at the same time, it really comes to comes to a head during the time of French colonialism.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
in North Africa where there were certain policy efforts to sort of divide and conquer local populations.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
And one of the ways in which they did that is they staked out different ethnic groups and treated them differently.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
And so there came a time during during the colonial period in places like Morocco and Algeria, where the French protectorate was very interested in delineating which groups were Amazigh and which ones were not.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
And so you started to get this current of identity happening from the outside, really.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
And then after independence, we see that many of the North African states were very keen on promoting an Arab Islamic identity, sort of as part of a larger North African movement.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
So, you know, of course, Amazigh people have been in North Africa for centuries, really time immemorial.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
But at the same time, it really comes to comes to a head during the time of French colonialism.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
in North Africa where there were certain policy efforts to sort of divide and conquer local populations.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
And one of the ways in which they did that is they staked out different ethnic groups and treated them differently.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
And so there came a time during during the colonial period in places like Morocco and Nigeria, where the French protectorate was very interested in delineating which groups were Amazigh and which ones were not.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
And so you started to get this current of identity happening from the outside, really.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
And then after independence, we see that many of the North African states were very keen on promoting an Arab Islamic identity, sort of as part of a larger North African movement.
Solomon SmithHOST
And it was a war to them that has fought and won in Europe.
Solomon SmithHOST
Although it really is a war that scholars now recognize was between the French Empire and the British Empire.
Solomon SmithHOST
And it was largely won outside of Europe.
Solomon SmithHOST
The fighting that happened elsewhere.
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Solomon SmithHOST
The second part was to use the Navy with Americans to assault Louisbourg and take control of this island.
Solomon SmithHOST
They would also use combined forces of Native and British Army to move against Niagara.
Solomon SmithHOST
This would cut out access to the western sections of the French Empire in and around Lake Ontario.
Solomon SmithHOST
The final pawn would be a British American force put together to take Fort Oswego and everything up Lake Champlain, this area right in here.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And in 1730, they owned 115 of 344 sugar plantations.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The story of the Jews in the English and Dutch colonies finds a counterpart in the most important French settlements such as Martinique, Guadeloupe, and San Domingo.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Here also sugar was a source of wealth and, as in other cases, the Jews controlled the industry and were the principal sugar merchants.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The first large plantation and refinery in Martinique was established in 1655 by Benjamin de Costa, who had fled thither from Brazil with 900 co-religionists and 1,100 slaves.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
In all this, we must never lose sight of the fact that in those critical centuries in which the colonial system was taking root in America and with its modern capitalism, the production of sugar was the backbone of the entire colonial economy, leaving out of account, of course, the mining of silver, gold, and gems in Brazil.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Indeed, it is somewhat difficult exactly to picture to ourselves the enormous significance in those centuries of sugar-making and sugar-selling.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The Council of Trade in Paris was guilty of no exaggerated language when it placed on record its belief that French shipping owes its splendor to the commerce of the sugar-producing islands, and it is only by means of this that the navy can be maintained and strengthened.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Now it must be remembered that the Jews had almost monopolized the sugar trade, the French branch in particular being controlled by the wealthy family of Gradosse-Bordeaux.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
So, you know, of course, Amazigh people have been in North Africa for centuries, really time immemorial.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
But at the same time, it really comes to comes to a head during the time of French colonialism.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
in North Africa where there were certain policy efforts to sort of divide and conquer local populations.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
And one of the ways in which they did that is they staked out different ethnic groups and treated them differently.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
And so there came a time during during the colonial period in places like Morocco and Nigeria, where the French protectorate was very interested in delineating which groups were Amazigh and which ones were not.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
And so you started to get this current of identity happening from the outside, really.
Heide CastañedaGUEST
And then after independence, we see that many of the North African states were very keen on promoting an Arab Islamic identity, sort of as part of a larger North African movement.
Ray RobinsonHOST
The division of France into the two different territories produced a very difficult situation for the French people both in France itself as well as throughout their extensive overseas empire.
Ray RobinsonHOST
Should they show loyalty to the official government leadership who had signed the agreements for German occupation, or should they show loyalty to the free French government that was being set up in London? And what about the vast French Empire that was spread throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific? With whom should these colonies pledge their allegiance? The French territories in Asia consisted of the countries we now know as Cambodia or Campuchia, Laos and Vietnam.
Ray RobinsonHOST
Catholic missionaries from France began to establish mission stations in Southeast Asia in the 1600s and in fact the major second language in these territories was European French.
Ray RobinsonHOST
The armistice document signed in Paris in 1940 required that the French territories in Southeast Asia would be administered from Vichy France.
Ray RobinsonHOST
Quite soon, Radio Saigon began to assume a new role.
Ray RobinsonHOST
that of the official voice of Vichy France to the French Empire.
Ray RobinsonHOST
However, the French colonies in the Pacific adopted an alternative stance and they demonstrated allegiance to the free French government in exile in London.
Ray RobinsonHOST
It was at this stage that an interesting exchange of words took place between two of the French shortwave stations, Radio Saigon in Vietnam and the low-powered station FK8AA on New Caledonia.
Christa DierksheideGUEST
So I think maybe he seems helpless, but in his mind, he had tremendous authority and jurisdiction, right? He secretly writes the Louisiana Constitution, Territorial Constitution, and he hands it off to Breckinridge, right? He thinks he has this authority.
Christa DierksheideGUEST
But when they enact a civil government, he realizes only then how weak his hand is going to be because of how widespread the system already has been under the Spanish and under the French.
Matthew MasonHOST
Right.
Matthew MasonHOST
That's reminiscent of our mutual friend Craig Hammond's argument 20 years ago about the overextended republic.
Dennis RichesGUEST
During the 1920s, he got the Bolsheviks to start paying attention to the colonized world.
Dennis RichesGUEST
And then he went back to his own country and eventually led the war there against the French.
Dennis RichesGUEST
And the Americans died shortly before the fall of Saigon, a few years before.
Dennis RichesGUEST
So just read Ho Chi Minh.
Paul MusselwhiteGUEST
But it is really the Haitian Revolution and the emergence of cotton that are the two events that are going to, in some respects, solve some of the problems, not the revolution itself.
Andrew SolaHOST
Although we shouldn't forget that many of the leaders or some of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution were part of the Chausseur Volontaire who fought for American independence as sort of agents of the French Empire.
Andrew SolaHOST
And I think the Battle of Savannah, is that correct?
Paul MusselwhiteGUEST
Yes, yes.
Muhammad KhursheedGUEST
And I was born in the country called the Gambia.
Muhammad KhursheedGUEST
So for me, later we moved to a country called Senegal, which is a French, previously a French colonized country.
Muhammad KhursheedGUEST
And in Senegal, for example, we were the only Pakistani family from the community, from the Ahmadiyya community.
Muhammad KhursheedGUEST
There was a few more who were non-Ahmadi Muslims, but from our own community, we were the only family.
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