The British government discussed not entering a war with the Africans or interfering with any of the native laws and customs for control of the Nile River. The contract was meant for the tribal leaders around the delta and it discussed the legal and land usage right. In document 2, An Ashanti leader had a negative reply to protectorate offer. The Ahshanti leader replied negatively, saying that the kingdom of Ashanti will never commit itself to any such policy. This document is anti-imperialism and is told by a someone who was asked to join the empire and declined.
The cunning actions of the European powers in Africa led to a disdain among the Africans against the Europeans, which set off violent rebellions that eventually helped lead Africa to liberty in the future. In documents 2 and 3 show that the effort among Africans to react with nonviolence. In Document 2, Prempeh’s denial of colony status under British rule goes to great lengths not to offend Her Majesty the Queen of England and insists that the Ashanti kingdom must remain on good diplomatic terms with all “White men,” even as he totally rejects the British offer. The friendly response can be understood as to not offend the British into seizing their kingdom. Menelik II’s letter to European powers (Document 3) clearly indicates his unwillingness to go along with plans to “divide Ethiopia among the distant Powers.” The constant references to Christianity in Ethiopia are no doubt intended to support the idea among Europeans that Ethiopia should be seen more favorably than other African nations, and be free from the Scramble for Africa.
There was a lot of controversy about these treaties and eventually the military had to step in. For European's this treaty meant that Africans has signed their powers away, but African's seen it as they had a sort of friendly treaty. Africa soon came to realize that this treaty was a fraudulent treaty and organized a military to fight for their land. (Iweriebor, 2011) Africa's military formed two groups one being the guerrilla warfare and the other being the direct military. Smaller decentralized places used the guerrilla warfare the most.
Another major part of European imperialism was the colonization or as I call it the torture of Sudan, in Africa. Sudan was not a political, economical or any threat at all to the British. It was just a road block in Britain’s way of domination, and stopping the chain of political power by the British. The Sudanian was based mostly on Muslim culture but they didn’t take very well to American rule. They wanted their country to be ruled by the people of their country, not by outsiders and they literally would die for that.
From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Europeans explored and colonized parts of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. As the Europeans continued to discover more fertile and lush areas of the world their greed and lust for wanting control only became enraged. This caused them to treat the people horrible unjust and their cruel enslavement over the people only increased eventually causing the people to rebel for their independence. Bartolome de Las Casas’s story of the Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies is a perfect example of the Spaniards greed, selfishness, and brutality to other human beings. He opens the story up by describing the natives of the Indies.
They made the claims that because they were uncivilized, this was a perfect justification for conquest. Europeans were looking for excuses to make Africa look like it needed European help; this made all African customs seem savage and not normal in the eyes of the Europeans. All of this encompassed the myth of the Dark
Some of the first civilizations started in Africa, and forever after other civilizations wanted to conquer Africa as a means of showing their global superiority. Africa's worst domination, however, came from the Europeans. European colonization set the stage for imperialism that Africa deals with to this day. Before the resurgence of imperialism Africa was a resourceful continent. During imperialism, Europeans went into Africa and stripped its land of its resources and this also changed the climate negatively.
Because in my perspective, this contradictory proclamation seems to be a political propaganda to support only the whites. Today I stand, as a runaway slave who escaped the grasp of slave owners and harsh Fugitive Slave Laws presented in the Compromise of 1850. However, tension has finally reached a peak between the North and the South due to the secession in 1860. I believe that several key events from 1845-1861 caused all this turmoil and crashed the regional differences between the Union and the Confederacy together. Eventually leading to the outbreak of the Civil war in 1861.
The passivity of Black people allowed racism to flourish. While Black’s practiced the religion that had been forced upon their ancestors, the descendants of the owners of their ancestors continued to abuse them. White men rapped Afrika, pillaging the culture, enslaving the people and conditioning us to forget. Joe is the epitome of the negative affects of an Afrikan trying to assimilate to a white world. He wanted so bad to be seen as different, as unlike his Afrika embracing mother as he could.
Overall, the trade brought about unceasing insecurities, economic disorder, and political chaos in the African continent. It blocked its socio-economic development by exploiting its technological, agricultural and human resources for the benefit of Europe only. It damaged Africa's mercantilist economy and prevented its evolution into a capitalist economy. On the long run, the Atlantic slave trade was the starting point of a process of socio-economic exploitation and political fragmentation that was later institutionalised by Europeans through colonisation and neocolonisation. In the end, only Europeans benefited from the trade.