In 1854, the Bank of Senegal was established using part of the compensation paid to former slave owners. The bank issued banknotes and provided modern financial services. Masaki analyzes the bank’s management and interrogates the widely accepted argument that merchants from Bordeaux controlled the bank to marginalize African merchants, concluding that the bank largely provided equitable service to this colony. Additionally, Masaki shows that the bank was a site of political struggles for the métis elites and suggests that the complexities of Senegalese society at the time made it difficult to assess the full scope of the bank’s operations.

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塞内加尔银行的管理和殖民地经济的形成，1840 年代至 1901 年

1854年，塞内加尔银行利用支付给前奴隶主的部分补偿金成立。银行发行纸币并提供现代金融服务。马萨基分析了该银行的管理层，并质疑了广泛接受的观点，即波尔多商人控制该银行以边缘化非洲商人，得出的结论是该银行在很大程度上为该殖民地提供了公平的服务。此外，马萨基表明，该银行是梅蒂斯精英政治斗争的场所，并表示当时塞内加尔社会的复杂性使得很难评估该银行业务的全部范围。