Bernard SALVAING

Bernard Salvaing is a professor emeritus of contemporary history. He is specialized in the history of Christian missions in Africa. He is also interested in how Muslim populations in Mali (Macina) and Guinea (Fouta Djalon) viewed French colonization. He is the author of numerous books, including Les Missionnaires à la rencontre de l'Afrique (Missionaries Encountering Africa) (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1995).

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Entrance to the Poulo Condore penal colony, in Indochina, 1895. Photograph by André Salles.
Entrance to the Poulo Condore penal colony, in Indochina, 1895. Photograph by André Salles. Source : Gallica/BnF
Europe, Europeans and the World

Forced Migrations and Labor in European Colonies

Bernard SALVAING
Building of a railway in Dahomey around 1900. Photo: Roger Viollet
Europe, Europeans and the World

Forced labor in European colonies

Bernard SALVAING
François-Auguste Biard (1799–1882), Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, 27 April 1848. Oil on canvas, 1849. Château de Versailles.
Europe, Europeans and the World

Slavery in European colonies

Bernard SALVAING

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