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In addition, the collapse of the gum market and Bordeaux merchants' restructuring of the colonial economy towards the peanut basin led to a period of financial insecurity for the métis elite and the rise of Muslim Saint-Louis traders who became the dominant intermediaries 1. [...] Trans-Saharan trade, the influence of Sufism and the presence of Sanhaja Berbers in the Western Sahara led to the gradual expansion of Islam among Bidan of the north bank of the Senegal and the Wolof, Pulaar and Soninke peoples of the south bank of the Senegal River. [...] The mayor served as the officer of the civil state legitimizing the union and any children issuing from the union in the eyes of the French state. [...] In addition to the expansion of French colonial rule in the mid-nineteenth century, the growth of Islam in the Senegal River valley helped to consolidate group identity for the métis elite. [...] In assuming positions of power in the local assemblies established in Senegal by Third Republic France in the 1870s, the métis elite argued that they held specific knowledge of the local environment and relied on a network of kin and clients that reached into the frontier of French expansion in the country.

Download or read book Métissage in Nineteenth Century Senegal written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition, the collapse of the gum market and Bordeaux merchants' restructuring of the colonial economy towards the peanut basin led to a period of financial insecurity for the métis elite and the rise of Muslim Saint-Louis traders who became the dominant intermediaries 1. [...] Trans-Saharan trade, the influence of Sufism and the presence of Sanhaja Berbers in the Western Sahara led to the gradual expansion of Islam among Bidan of the north bank of the Senegal and the Wolof, Pulaar and Soninke peoples of the south bank of the Senegal River. [...] The mayor served as the officer of the civil state legitimizing the union and any children issuing from the union in the eyes of the French state. [...] In addition to the expansion of French colonial rule in the mid-nineteenth century, the growth of Islam in the Senegal River valley helped to consolidate group identity for the métis elite. [...] In assuming positions of power in the local assemblies established in Senegal by Third Republic France in the 1870s, the métis elite argued that they held specific knowledge of the local environment and relied on a network of kin and clients that reached into the frontier of French expansion in the country.