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Jules Ferry was the Prime Minister of France during the time France was looking for imperial expansion Jules felt that it was an urgent matter that France continue colonial expansion He was concerned that the industrial population of France needed exports Things had changed with the other nation-states in Europe and the United States and they were beginning to provide new products to their own people They no longer needed to rely on France as heavily and they began setting up trade barriers However for France if there were no exports there was no economic market to help sustain them Ferry recognized this as a great complication Kleinman para 2 to the trade market the French had excelled at for so long As the United States continued to grow their trading and exports Ferry became increasingly concerned they may eventually take over the South American market that he claimed had belonged to France forever He asked his people if they felt this was a need that could wait for the future
He argued that it must not wait and that it was a need of the most urgent kind as it directly affected the livelihood of the French economy Ferry was concerned the advancement of other countries was directly threatening France Ferry made a bold statement even during that time that the higher races have a right over the lower races para 3 He argued that those races have a duty to civilize the lower races It is extremely easy to recognize the racism in his statements Ferry went further to accuse Spain of introducing slavery incorrectly into South America claiming the Spanish soldiers were the higher race and they did not fulfill the duty of that title Was this not justifying slavery Ferry seems to suggest there was no wrongdoing because they are of the higher race
