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Short Paper assignment Due Dates: Friday, July 15 by 11:59pm on Blackboard Length: 500-600 words (approximately 2 pages double-spaced) Questions: How did “new” British imperialism work/function in sub-Saharan Africa as shown in Abina and the accompanying documents? How did the British act (politically, economically, culturally)? Why were they there? How did the Africans respond? Details: You should address TWO different types of imperialism from the following list (we will discuss these on July 11):  Colonial governmental rule by the British, either direct or indirect  instances of the British legal system being used in the colony  the "civilizing mission"  cultural and racial "mixing"  instances of assimilation by Africans or part-Africans to British culture/society  Economic domination by the British You should consider and briefly summarize the particulars with two examples/situation (or “scenes”) from Abina and the Important Men but more importantly, you should discuss extensively how those examples/situations/scenes fit into the historical context of British imperialism in sub-Sahara Africa. Sources: First, you obviously MUST use Abina and the Important Men to discuss the above. You must ALSO use BOTH of the following primary documents in some way (likely as corroboration to the examples from Abina but also possibly as further context): 1. David Livingstone’s speech to Cambridge University (1857) 2. Ndansi Kumalo, "On the British Incursion in Zimbabwe" (1932) Finally, you will also need to use my lecture from July 11 and all videos and textbook pages related to imperialism in Africa for background and framing purposes. I. Introduction  Thesis statement: The African continent got affected immensely by the British control; the British used Africa for producing and selling goods after colonization, but later banned the practice of slaveholding. II. British Imperialism  The main reason as to why British and Africa fought against each other is because British demanded slave dealing and amber.  Later, slavery was condemned by many missionaries and leaders, therefore British decided to prohibit slave trading because it was inhumane. III. Great Britain banned slaveholding  Great Britain announced the end of bondage and slave trafficking.  However, some Africans also adopted slavery, an act that was against their moral culture. IV. Conclusion: In conclusion, prohibition of slavery and slave dealing became a law. All the efforts to make it a law were demonstrated by the British administration.  Restate Thesis: British imperialism impacted the African continent vastly and the effect changed the lives of Africans irrefutably or damagingly.  Final Thoughts: Even though slavery was shunned, still part of it is practiced in the African society as evidenced in Abina’s scenario. References Brian J Griffith (January 2011). Abina and the important Men retrieved from http//:www.abina.org Maurice C (May 2013). David Livingstone’s speech retrieved from http//:www.davidlivingstone2013.blogspot.com John chadlock (September 6th 2012). The Missionaries in Africa retrieved from http//:www.historyworld.net David Livingstone's Cambridge Speech of December 1857 In December 1856, David Livingstone returned to England after spending fifteen years in Southern and Central Africa. A year later on the 4th of December, he gave a speech to students at Cambridge University. Below is that speech, with an introductory paragraph written by a commentator: David Livingstone (1813-1873), the Scottish missionary and explorer of Africa, personified for Britain the higher cause of imperialism. Between 1840 and 1873, Livingstone traversed nearly a third of Africa, missionizing Christianity, opposing the persistent slave trade, and recording the geography and ethnographic customs of its peoples. His achievement and his selfeffacing devotion to opening up Africa to commerce and Christianity provided inspiration to a nineteenth-century British public in search of a moral center to its imperialist policies in Africa. My object in going into the country south of the desert [sub-Sahara Africa] was to instruct the natives in a knowledge of Christianity, but many circumstances prevented my living amongst them more than seven years, amongst which were considerations arising out of the slave system carried on by the Dutch Boers. I resolved to go into the country beyond, and soon found that, for the purposes of commerce, it was necessary to have a path to the sea. I might have gone on instructing the natives in religion, but as civilization and Christianity must go on together, I was obliged to find a path to the sea, in order that I should not sink to the level of the natives... Angola is wonderfully fertile, producing every kind of tropical plant in rank luxuriance. Passing on to the valley of Quango, the stalk of the grass was as thick as a quill, and towered above my head, although I was mounted on my ox; cotton is produced in great abundance, though merely woven into common cloth; bananas and pineapples grow in great luxuriance; but the people having no maritime communication, these advantages are almost lost... My desire is to open a path to this district, that civilization, commerce, and Christianity might find their way there. I consider that we made a great mistake, when we carried commerce into India, in being ashamed of our Christianity; as a matter of common sense and good policy, it is always best to appear in one's true character. In traveling through Africa, I might have imitated certain Portuguese, and have passed for a chief; but I never attempted anything of the sort, although endeavouring always to keep to the lessons of cleanliness rigidly instilled by my mother long ago; the consequence was that the natives respected me for that quality, though remaining dirty themselves... A prospect is now before us of opening Africa for commerce and the Gospel. Providence has been preparing the way... The natives of Central Africa are very desirous of trading, but their only traffic is at present in slaves, of which the poorer people have an unmitigated horror: it is therefore most desirable to encourage the former principle, and thus open a way for the consumption of free productions, and the introduction of Christianity and commerce. By encouraging the native propensity for trade, the advantages that might be derived in a commercial point of view are incalculable; nor should we lose sight of the inestimable blessings it is in our power to bestow upon the unenlightened African, by giving him the light of Christianity. Those two pioneers of civilization - Christianity and commerce - should ever be inseparable; and Englishmen should be warned by the fruits of neglecting that principle as exemplified in the result of the management of Indian affairs. By trading with Africa, also, we should at length be independent of slave-labour, and thus discountenance practices so obnoxious to every Englishman. Though the natives are not absolutely anxious to receive the Gospel, they are open to Christian influences. Among the Bechuanas [a group in Central Africa] the Gospel was well received. These people think it a crime to shed a tear, but I have seen some of them weep at the recollection of their sins when God had opened their hearts to Christianity and repentance. It is true that missionaries have difficulties to encounter; but what great enterprise was ever accomplished without difficulty? It is deplorable to think that one of the noblest of our missionary societies, the Church Missionary Society, is compelled to send to Germany for missionaries, whilst other societies are amply supplied. Let this stain be wiped off. - The sort of men who are wanted for missionaries are such as I see before me; men of education, standing, enterprise, zeal, and piety. It is a mistake to suppose that any one, as long as he is pious, will do for this office. Pioneers in every thing should be the ablest and best qualified men, not those of small ability and education. This remark especially applies to the first teachers of Christian truth in regions which may never have before been blest with the name and Gospel of Jesus Christ. In the early ages the monasteries were the schools of Europe, and the monks were not ashamed to hold the plough. The missionaries now take the place of those noble men, and we should not hesitate to give up the small luxuries of life in order to carry knowledge and truth to them that are in darkness. I hope that many of those whom I now address will embrace that honourable career. Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of a Saviour. If you knew the satisfaction of performing such a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel, in being chosen for so noble, so sacred a calling, you would have no hesitation in embracing it. For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay?- Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? - Away with the word in such a view, and with such a thought! It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink, but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall hereafter be revealed in, and for, us. I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk, when we remember the great sacrifice which HE made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.
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The rule of the British Empire has a historical point of view that ranges across different
phases that are also characterized by their different events and functions. There is the issue of the
slave trade that went across the empire in the middle of the 19th century up to the issues of
imperialism that was in this designated to various ports across the western African coast. They
took of control and established empires up to the time of new imperialism across the late 19th
century in the European conquest era. It is clear that the British used Africa through the imperial
era to govern its subject people and in human development as well as slaves throughout the
century to gain their political and economic interests in the expense of th...


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