Although there had been a British and greater European presence in Africa prior to the last two decades of the 19th century it was primarily coastal and revolved around the slave trade. With the abolition of the slave trade within the British Empire in 1803 and a complete abolition of slavery across...
They assumed that the French populace, suffering under the British rule, would doubtless join the struggle for freedom, but they had gravely misjudged the situation. ... Moreover, French-speaking residents were generally Catholics, for whom the protestant Continental Army had little respect due to the religious hostilities. iii Compared to the Thirteen Colonies, they would rather side with the British, who had treated them and their culture with courtesy since the Seven Years' War.iv Along with other three significant Anglo-French wars on the American continent between 1689 and 1763, the ...
By the time the company was disbanded in 1858, hardly more than a thousand British officers controlled India, an area the size of Europe in which 200 million people--about a quarter of them Muslim, but a majority Hindu--spoke more than 200 different languages. ... The India that these British traders came to do business in was a thoroughly bewildering place, a vast expanse of land filled with millions of peasants ruled by a small number of princes--mostly Muslim--with power derived from a court whose opulence could put any in Europe to shame. The Moguls, a band of intruders of Mongolian, Turki...
Assignment "The work of the white, middle-class campaigners was the main reason the slave trade was abolished." Do you agree? Explain your opinion in detail. The Slave Trade refers to the trading pattern in which people (mostly Europeans) forcibly removed black people from the West coast of Africa...
Even after the de-colonization of Africa, the boundaries of the newly born states drawn with no regard to tribal lands and the European and American companies that own the majority of Africa's most resourceful land, are reminders that a form of imperialism still exists. ...