PART I: Colonial Governance in Brazil
Brazil: Prior to our discussion you are to read the treaty proposed by runaway slaves in Bahia as a condition of their return to the sugar plantation of Coronel Manoel da Silva Ferreira.

Answer the questions at the site as a prelude to our discussion.

January 30, 2002 

PART II: Power and Authority in Colonial Governance- The French in West Africa
In this class we will examine the way in which the major players (the French colonial officers, and the Hausa nobles and commoners) understood the power and authority relations under the colonial regime, primarily in the 1930s and early 1940s (the Vichy French regime).

Read: (Prior to class) two of the following texts (they are brief) J Colins, Power and Authority in Colonial Niger;  William Miles, Colonial Hausa Idioms,  William Miles Hausaland Divided, Robert DelaVignette, Freedom and Authority in French West Africa  (written by a French colonial officer in Niger) Native Chiefs and Colonial Society.

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