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1 - Rising Wind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2014

Carol Anderson
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Emory University, Atlanta
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It won’t hurt you guys to struggle for the things you love to talk about. After a while you’ll get a revolutionary conscience.

– George Streator

By 1919, thick, dark smoke billowed out of Europe’s crumbling empires. The flames of self-determination, sparked by the Wilsonian principles of the First World War, licked the outskirts of Europe itself, then spread to Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. The colonial powers tried to douse it, harness it, defuse it, but the ember of independence still burned. All of the maneuvering at Versailles had not quelled the fervor.

In fact, the horse trading at the peace talks, the bartering of peoples back and forth, and the refusal of the great powers to acknowledge racial equality as a bedrock principle of international law and peace added a powerful accelerant to the quest for freedom. As African leader Lamine Senghor remarked in 1927 at the conference of the League Against Imperialism, “We have assembled to defend ourselves against these injustices”: that “the imperialists very democratically reserve the right to sell an entire Negro people to another imperialist,” that “you are forced to work ten hours a day in the ... African sun, and can only earn 2 francs,” that confessions for so-called crimes are extracted through methods “worthy of the darkest Middle Ages,” and that when the “Negroes of the Antilles ... demand too many rights,” the French press advocates that these twentieth-century slaves be sold “to the Americans; then one would at least make a profit out of it.” “Beware!” Senghor warned. Although blacks had been in a long slumber, they “will not fall asleep again.”

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Bourgeois Radicals
The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941–1960
, pp. 10 - 68
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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  • Rising Wind
  • Carol Anderson, Emory University, Atlanta
  • Book: Bourgeois Radicals
  • Online publication: 05 December 2014
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  • Book: Bourgeois Radicals
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