European Imperialism In Africa During 1700s And 1800s

To increase the population to work for free, million of Africans were brought to the America to work under horrible conditions. The Africans were sold in many ways. They were sold to traders by other Africans, and eventually forced into slavery. Slaves were placed aboard ships to be taken across the Atlantic. Similarly, Europeans used sheep to make their lifestyles better.

The U.S soil home of the free home of opportunities and the home where all men were created equal right? In retrospect, when the country first came about Englishmen evaded a land already claimed and ended up removing Africans from their homeland to make slavemen all for the love of money. Many years ago when slavery came about they held millions of Africans enslaved all for the love money it's the same with overworking people who deserves more than what they’re paid.The American society is one of money hungry businessmen who puts money over Americans’ well being. Foreigners might perceive America as the promised land where opportunities lie, while that can be true, history shows countless acts of how this society puts hardships on many people's

Then “slave factories” were used to sell people to save owners the trouble of going to Africa to find more people. Owners were able to carry out their crops at the expense of the people brought to America. After many years this created negative profiling and obstacles for underprivileged races. When people in Britain started developing their own opinions about slavery everything changed for England. A man named “Earl” decided that slavery would be illegal because it was not fair for people to own others.

What was the driving force behind European Imperialism in Africa? Between 1500 and 1800 the Europeans knew  little about the interior of Africa their presence was to buy and sell slaves for pots, cloth, and weapons and set sail to America. Late as 1870 ten percent of Africa was under Europeans control and most was along edges by 1914 ninety percent of Africa was in control four years later. Due to the countries that held African colonies in 1914 that involved the British, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spain, and Belgian. France and Britain were the main  conquer in African colonies, because there conqueror of land in Africa.

The Berlin Conference took place during the New Imperialism period. A major outcome of the Berlin Conference was eliminating many forms of autonomy and self-governance. Germany, Great Britain & France competed to find more land which ultimately led to the Scramble for Africa. The German Chancellor called on the US to take part in the Berlin Conference with a joint policy. Sub-Saharan Africa was one of the last regions to be untouched by Imperialism.

Culture was a big deal in Africa. The European’s who were definitely white men, thought people of color weren’t as important as them. Those people were taken advantage of. In the poem, “The White Man’s Burden,” has a lot to do with culture in the time Africa was imperialized The poem itself is pretty racist and many dislike it. “Send forth the best ye breed-” Kipling, the writer means in that quote to make the white men do the job.

Due to strong European force, slaves experienced dehumanization through being captured from their villages and tortured, living with awful conditions on ships, and being sold against their will to Americans. Europeans invaded African villages out of nowhere; Africans were caught by surprise with no chance to fight back, and

Africans have been migrating to America for about two hundred years already, forced, and voluntary. For these two hundred years, the migrants from Africa have heavily impacted America’s society, even though america’s society is mainly built up of Europeans. Migrants from Africa have socially impacted America by sharing their cultures, having anti-racist campaigns, and re-defining sports in America. Back since the Africans have been forced to migrate to the America by Europeans, there have been signs of their culture spreading throughout the continent. Now, their culture can clearly be seen today in America, where there are still more migrants coming from Africa.

The subhuman treatment is especially apparent in the depiction of the slave ships where the white men packed them like sardines and branded them like cattle. They saw Africans as their monetary value rather than their personal value (Baker, 35-44.) People of all ages and sexes suffered or died. In addition, the atrocity of the slave trade and slavery as a whole still has lasting effects today due to the lingering bigotry of whites over the years. It makes sense why history books don’t delve deeper into Nat Turner’s rebellion because while it was a horrific event, it was a dramatically smaller scale in comparison to the slave trade.

Through his own experience of slavery from a child to adult, he exposed the brutal nature of slavery and revealed underside of how slave owners maintain such terrible regime. In the institution of slavery, whites gain their power over slavery by the practice of violent and cruel treatment, deliberately keep slaves ignorant of basic facts about slave themselves and the intention of enslaving them. Slaveholders in the south separated slave’s family, slaves will become vulnerable and lost consciousness or hope in the absence of family love. Slaveholder could keep them without facing any lawful punishments. Basis on these, whites can make black slaves lost their individuality and qualities as human, they will have not have consciousness aware their place in the society.