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1455-1456:
Fifteenth-Century Slave Trade - The Portuguese in
West Africa - Alvise
da Cadamosto |
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1555:
Richard Eden - English Merchants at the Royal Court
of Benin |
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1682:
John Barbot, a slave trader, describes the African
slave trade |
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1682-1880:
Slave Narratives - excerpts |
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17c-18c?:
Plan of a ship for transporting slaves |
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1700:
Composition of the Cape Dutch slave society in 1700 - statistics
|
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1700:
An Eyewitness Describes the Slave Trade in Guinea -
Captain Willem Bosman
|
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1732:
Slave Trade
Documents
- John Barbot |
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1754:
The Cape Town Slave Code |
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1768:
Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa
- Francis Moore |
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1769:
Broadside announcing the sale of slaves - Charlestown, SC |
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1788:
Conditions on
an English Slaver
- Alexander Falconbridge |
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1789:
Life of Olaudah Equiano |
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18c:
Diagram of the slave ship Brooks |
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late 18c: Social
conditions of slaves at the Cape: other restrictions administered
by VOC officials and/or enforced by 'free burghers' |
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19c:
African Proverbs |
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early 19c:
Piet Retief's Manifesto |
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1795: Travels
into the Interior of Africa - Mungo Park |
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1808:
The Report of the Committee of the African Institution - West
African produce |
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1841:
Instructions of Lord John Russell, British Colonial Secretary, to
Her Majesty's Niger Commissioners
|
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1844:
An extract from instructions issued by the British Admiralty for the
guidance of officers in their negotiations with local Chiefs in
forwarding the suppression of the slave trade from coastal Africa |
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1849: A
View of the Art of Colonization in Present Reference to the
British Empire in Letters between a Statesman and a Colonist -
Edward Gibbon Wakefield |
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1850:
Remarks on the Suppression of the Slave Trade |
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1853: A
Pilgrimage to Mecca - Sir Richard Francis Burton |
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1853:
The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign - Harry Carey |
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1862:
Treaty Between United States and Great Britain for
the Suppression of the Slave Trade |
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1871: How
I Found Dr. Livingstone - Henry Stanley |
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1873: Eleven
Years in Central South Africa - Thomas
Morgan Thomas |
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1877: Confession
of Faith - Cecil Rhodes |
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1878-85:
"Is He Not in Congo-land?" - excerpts from the writings of the 19c
explorer Henry Morton Stanley |
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1879:
A German Viewpoint on Imperialism |
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1879-1884:
Stanley's Congo Treaties |
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late 19c?: The
Belgian Congo Forced Labor System |
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late 19c: Jules
Ferry (1832-1893) - On French Colonial Expansion |
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1880s:
Template
Sample of a Native Treaty with a European Power |
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1884:
On French Colonial Expansion - Jules Ferry, French Prime Minister |
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1885: African
Map
- by Scottish cartographer John Bartholomew (a snapshot of
Africa at a pivotal point in its modern history)
|
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1885:
The Berlin Conference: The General Act of Feb. 26
|
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1888:
Treaty between Adeyemi, Alafin of Oyo and Head of Yoruba-land and
Her Majesty, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, July |
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1891: A
French Viewpoint on Imperialism |
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1892: "The
Rhodes Colossus" - political cartoon by Linley Sambourne in Punch
Magazine |
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1893: Capt.
F. D. Lugard - The Rise of Our East African Empire |
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1893:
Joseph Chamberlain Preaches the Doctrine of Commercial
Imperialism |
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1893: "Cecil
Rhodes - The Napoleon of South Africa" - political cartoon in
Westminster Budget (London) |
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1897: The
Suppression of the African Slave Trade [Chapter XII] - W. E. B. Du
Bois |
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1897: "Recessional" - poem by
Rudyard Kipling |
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1897:
The speech of the British Secretary of State for the Colonies,
Joseph Chamberlain, at the annual dinner of the Royal Colonial
Institute on March 31 |
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1899?: A
Century of Wrong - J. C. Smuts |
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1899: "The
White Man's Burden" - Rudyard Kipling |
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1899:
With the 17th Lancers in Zululand |
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1900:
"The Defence of Rorke's Drift" - painting by Elizabeth Butler and
commissioned by Queen Victoria |
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1902: The
Economic Bases of Imperialism
- John Hobson |
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1902: Heart
of Darkness - Joseph Conrad |
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1903:
"The Black Man’s Burden"
- Edward Morel |
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1903:
Britain and the Congo Free State - Dispatch of Lord
Lansdowne to the signatories of the Berlin Act |
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1903:
"Personal Observations of Congo Misgovernment" by Rev. William M.
Morrison (For six and one-half years a missionary of the Presbyterian
Church [South] at Luebo, Congo Free State.),
American Monthly Review of Reviews
28 (July) |
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1904:
Report of the British Consul, Roger Casement, on the
Administration of the Congo Free State |
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1906:
"Conditions in the Congo State" - Congo Reform Association, Boston
(Jan.) |
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1909:
The Crime of the Congo - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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1912:
"The South African Races Congress" - Inaugural Address by J. Tengo
Jabavu, President, South African Races Congress, April 2 |
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1916:
Native Life in South Africa: Before and Since
the European War and the Boer Rebellion (Chapter 4: "One Night
with the Fugitives") - Sol. T. Plaatje |
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1919:
Pan-African Congress 1919 Resolution |
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1923: Constitution
of the National Congress of British West Africa |
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1926:
The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa - Frederick Lugard |
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1939:
Fighting Africa's Black Magic -
Madge Haines Morrill (midway down the page) |
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1945:
Pan-African Congress (2nd doc. down the page) |
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1958:
All-African People's Conference: Resolution on Imperialism and
Colonialism, Accra |