During the years following the Berlin Conference the British and French governments sought to covert their grandiose territorial claims into valid title by effective occupation. ... To insure that British requirements were fulfilled, a resident was appointed to the court of each native ruler of the first rank. ... The British as well as the Germans used the idea of "Imperial monarchy" to govern their colonies, allowing little governmental rule from the natives opposing French colonial rule. ...

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As the eighteenth century went on, it became more and more difficult, however, "to support a family on farming alone," and many had to resort to working in factories or shops as well as owning a small farm to earn enough to afford the family's basic needs.8 It was a well known fact that "relationships within native American families, clans, and tribes were far more supportive than were the frequently adversarial activities of landed families and nation-states in Europe."9 The native Americans of the North, also known as the Amerindians, held women much higher on the social ladder than d...

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He made a speech in the House of Commons in 1792 in which he said, "I know of no evil that has ever existed worse than the tearing of 70,000 or 80,000 people each year from their native land. " He frequently and strongly voiced his opinions to the rest of the MPs to try to persuade them to join the cause for although he was Prime Minister he still had to gain enough votes from his counterparts to pass the act. ... Clarkson attended Cambridge University and won an essay competition; the essay's title was "Is it right to make men slaves against their will " For this essay he had done consid...

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