1. Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
European
Colonialism in
Africa
Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

2. African Trade [15c-17c]

3. Pre-19c European Trade with Africa

4. European Motives For Colonization European Nationalism
Source for
Raw
Materials
Missionary Activity
Industrial
Revolution
European
Motives
For Colonization
Markets for Finished Goods
Military & Naval Bases
Social Darwinism
European Racism
Places to Dump Unwanted/ Excess Popul.
Humanitarian Reasons
Soc. & Eco. Opportunities
“White Man’s Burden”

5. European Explorers in Africa
19c  Europeans Map the Interior of Africa

7. 19c
Mysteries
& Adventures

8. 1. Where Is Dr. Livingstone?
Doctor Livingstone, I Presume?
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Dr. David Livingstone

9. European Explorations in mid-19c: “The Scramble for Africa”

10. 2. What is the Source of the Nile?
Sir Richard Burton
John Speke

11. Africa
1890

12. Africa in
1914

13. Social Darwinism

14. The “White Man’s Burden”
Rudyard Kipling

15. The “White Man’s Burden”?

16. The Belgian Congo:
"King Leopold's
Ghost"

17. The Congo Free State or The Belgian Congo

18. King Leopold II: (r – 1909)

19. Harvesting Rubber

20. Punishing “Lazy” Workers

21. 5-8 Million Victims! (50% of Popul.)
It is blood-curdling to see them (the soldiers) returning with the hands of the slain, and to find the hands of young children amongst the bigger ones evidencing their bravery...The rubber from this district has cost hundreds of lives, and the scenes I have witnessed, while unable to help the oppressed, have been almost enough to make me wish I were dead... This rubber traffic is steeped in blood, and if the natives were to rise and sweep every white person on the Upper Congo into eternity, there would still be left a fearful balance to their credit Belgian Official

22. Belgium’s Stranglehold on the Congo

23. Leopold’s Conscience??

24. Berlin Conference of
Another point of view? 

25. Berlin Conference of

26. European Rule in the Colonies
The Europeans used a combination of direct and indirect rule
The British used indirect rule the most. Why?

27. European Colonization/Decolonization Patterns
Berlin Conference of

28. Leopold Defends Himself in Paris, 1903
King Leopold (to Loubert) : How about that!  John Bull claims that I tortured, robbed and murdered more than he did Loubert : No, your Majesty, that's impossible .

29. The Struggle
For
South Africa

30. Dutch Landing in 1652

31. Shaka Zulu (1785 – 1828)

32. Boers Clash With the Xhosa Tribes
Boer Farmer

33. The Great Trek,
Afrikaners

34. Diamond Mines
Raw Diamonds

35. The Struggle for South Africa

36. “The Colossus of Rhodes”
Cecil Rhodes ( )
“The Colossus of Rhodes”

37. Uncle Sam: “The Colossus of the Pacific” (A Parody)

38. Paul Kruger ( )

39. Boer-British Tensions Increase
1877 – Britain annexed the Transvaal.
1883 – Boers fought British in the Transvaal and regained its independence Paul Kruger becomes President.
1880s – Gold discovered in the Transvaal

40. The Boer War:
The British
The Boers

41. A Future British Prime Minister
British Boer War Correspondent, Winston Churchill

42. The Struggle for South Africa

43. New phase of mineral extraction in Africa exemplified by experience in DRC
Picture given by Colette Braeckman (2004), New Internationalist 367