Senegal is a country in West Africa. More recently, it was the center of French colonization. The history of the colonization of these places goes back to hoary antiquity, where, on the island of Karaban, there was the largest center of the slave trade. There, some Negroes sold others at a fair price. Subsequently, the Arabs came there, which continued this profitable occupation.
Then the Portuguese came to Senegal. They did not resist local customs - the slave trade, they instantly adopted, strengthened, introduced commerce, banking services and very quickly ousted the Arabs from the slave market. The local Senegalese leaders simply looked into the mouth of these cunning businessmen, catching every word as a revelation. The Portuguese began to lean on black men, in the sense of increasing demand. They attracted their commercial souls, thick muscles, endurance in hot places, not exacting food (at least presumably), calm disposition and the habit of slavery (the latter was deduced from the fact that they say from time immemorial this has happened here, probably used to).
And finally the French came. They brought a new colonization, freed the slaves and told them that it was very bad to take into slavery. Local leaders did not believe at first, but in the end, inertia was defeated, with the help of persuasion of various degrees of influence.
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Along with new concepts of slavery, the French brought new methods of exploitation to Senegal. The worker worked better than the slave, and besides, he fed himself. They began to build mines and railways, and soon the phrase thread-cutting machine ceased to be a curiosity. From the black Senegal, a deputy was elected to the French parliament and gradually from the local population they began to form detachments of "Senegalese shooters" who actively helped the French control Africa.
