In this chapter, Collins explains and depicts how Europeans destroyed Africa through their actions. European countries like German, Britain, and France scrambled to gain as much land in Africa. This created sort of a rivalry between the countries, which only made them obtain more resources from Africa to Industrial their countries. They chose their colonies based on the advantage they would gain by it’s strategically location. Colonies on rivers usually gave European countries an advantage because it allowed for easier trade.
Meaning these now obsolete slaves were being subject to have to watch European countries take over their lands and began industrializing on african soil because of how rich in materials the African land is. This was also seen in India, when the British took control of the Indian Company, and the British’ habits began to get to the indians to the point of which they eventually revolted (as seen in Document
These accounts, supported by memoirs such as Oladuah Equiano's, who survived the journey, informed the masses and catalyzed the destruction of slavery. The atrocities continued once the Africans arrived in the West Indies, but resistance began to grow once on the plantation. Great debate exists even today over just how and why the British Parliament voted to abolish the slave trade. By the late 1700's, the abolition movement had become strong enough to exert considerable pressure on Parliament, and an array of differing arguments were being made for abolition. Former slave Olaudah Equiano presented both a moral and an economic case for abolition, in the latter sounding a great deal like Adam Smith.
According to Document 6, the British made significant improvements such as ending slavery, establishing Courts of Law, teaching the natives a sense of responsibility, liberty, and of justice. They also taught their rulers how to apply these principles. Without question the British had plenty of positive effects on Africa. In contrast, British imperialism also caused many negative effects. In addition to helping India, the British Empire negatively affected India.
The Dutch had a huge interest for gold in Africa, but was beginning to switch to slaves. Imported guns to the inland of Africa gave rise
The Europeans would still punish those that had already been brought into slavery. | 12. The Boers were agricultural farmers, but left on the “Great Trek” because of discontent at the harsh British rule. | 13. The British fought the Boers for the land they had and to keep them so they can tax their products.
The Europeans called this Manifest Destiny, the belief that the United States was destined to expand the North American continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Again, a biological rationale, this time combined with Manifest Destiny, was used to justify their war against the Mexicans for their land. The Mexicans were too stupid to properly use their land for capital gain, they were miscegenated, that because they lived too close to the equator that their brains were burnt out by the sun, etc. This was used as justification to wage war against Mexico and the subsequent sale of those states to the United States. After the Africans were freed from slavery, the plantation owners needed very cheap labor to help tend to the
The industrial revolution contributed to the Scramble for Africa because Europe hoped that Africa would be a source of raw materials to feed on the industrial revolution. Their interest on the Scramble for Africa increased when diamonds and gold were found in South
Research Paper 4 Question: How did imperialism help and eventually hurt powers in Europe? Imperialism helped European powers by giving confidence to the European government. It hurt them by bringing conflict with the British and china causing the Opium war, also a major part of European imperialism was the colonization of Africa and India... The Europeans made a big name for themselves during the late 1800s, early 1900s, they ran through countries like Africa for the fact that they could. They caused a lot of hatred towards them that evolved into more… Along with expanses, there came abusive power from the European countries.
They even practiced their religion and cultural beliefs toward Africans. Then Europeans soon began to industrialize soon after. And what the Europeans wanted and needed for their industry was raw materials. And since Africa had the resources they needed, they ended up taking control. Though they struggled to involve the proliferation of conflicting European claims to African territory during the imperialism period.