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Primary source documents are valuable learning resources preferred by many teachers because they give student the chance to decipher and interpret the history themselves. Africa and the West presents a range of hard-to-find primary source documents on Africa from the slave trade that started in the early part of the fifteenth century to independence and the problems of the post-colonial period.

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Preface

vii

Part 1: Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade

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(108)

Introduction

(2)

The beginnings of a regular European trade in slaves from Africa

(8)

The Pope grants to the Portuguese a monopoly of trade with Africa

(3)

The King of Spain regulates the importation of African slaves into the Americas

(1)

British attempts to break the Portuguese and Spanish monopolies of slave trading

(2)

A Jesuit justifies the trade in African slaves to a skeptical colleague

(1)

The importation of slaves into the Cape of Good Hope

(1)

An attempt to create an English monopoly of trade in West Africa

(1)

Sources of slaves for the Royal African Company

(1)

The log of the Arthur, a ship carrying slaves for the Royal African Company from West Africa to Barbados

(4)

The Council of the Indies answers questions from the King of Spain concerning the introduction of slaves into Spanish America

(2)

The voyage of the Hannibal, carrying slaves from West Africa to Barbados

(6)

Willem Bosman describes the Dutch trade for slaves on the West African Coast

(2)

In support of slavery and against monopoly

(2)

Venture Smith describes his capture into slavery

(3)

Olaudah Equiano becomes a slave

(8)

Anders Sparrman describes the treatment of slaves in South Africa

(4)

Alexander Falconbridge describes his experiences as a physician on slave ships

(10)

The plan of the slave ship Brookes

(1)

In support of the continued importation of slaves into South Africa

(2)

Mungo Park describes taking slaves from the interior of Africa to the coast

(10)

Britain and the United States enact legislation to abolish the trade in slaves

(4)

Ali Eisami recounts how he was taken into slavery and then freed

(4)

Samuel Crowther escapes slavery

(6)

The Asante king questions British motives in ending the slave trade

(2)

A slave revolt in South Africa

(5)

A Muslim explains the morality and practices of slavery

(5)

Tippu Tip, the ``leopard.''

103

(2)

Chisi Ndjurisiye Sichyajunga, slave

105

(4)

Part 2: From Abolition to Conquest

109

(120)

Introduction

111

(2)

The subordination of labor in South Africa

113

(2)

The trade question in West Africa

115

(3)

The King of Asante disputes the text of a treaty

118

(4)

The impact of the abolitionists on labor legislation

122

(1)

The settlers' revolt

123

(2)

A missionary talks with a king

125

(4)

Dingane kills the first settlers

129

(1)

Advance by treaty in West Africa

130

(2)

The secretary of state for the colonies proposes a more interventionist policy to end the slave trade

132

(4)

Treaties with ``barbarians'' are different from those with ``civilized'' people

136

(3)

The persistence of ``illegal'' slaving

139

(10)

Samuel Crowther on the role of African missionaries

149

(3)

Christianity and cattle killing

152

(3)

Boer slaving

155

(4)

Legislating race and religion

159

(2)

Expanding trade by taking territory, Lagos 1861

161

(2)

French ambitions in West Africa

163

(4)

Africanus B. Horton on an autonomous Africa

167

(5)

Diamonds

172

(3)

Cecil Rhodes dreams of empire

175

(4)

The sack of Kumasi

179

(6)

Cetshwayo describes Zulu society

185

(4)

A university for Africa

189

(5)

The scramble for Africa begins

194

(2)

The Berlin conference

196

(2)

Rhodes reaches north

198

(2)

The imperialism of chartered companies

200

(1)

Voices of imperialism

201

(17)

Voices of resistance

218

(11)

Part 3: Colonialism and Its Critics

229

(106)

Introduction

231

(2)

Making colonialism appear ``traditional.''

233

(3)

Africa for the African

236

(3)

Evidence of colonial atrocities in the Belgian Congo

239

(2)

Frederick Lugard instructs his officials on how to implement indirect rule

241

(5)

The French practice direct rule to enforce submission

246

(3)

A German school examination for African children

249

(1)

The Natives Land Act, South Africa, 1913

250

(3)

The ANC in South Africa

253

(2)

W.E.B. Du Bois describes an Atlantic world bounded by racial exploitation

255

(4)

An appeal for the equal treatment of Africans and people of African descent

259

(1)

Harry Thuku explains why he formed a political movement for all East Africans

260

(6)

Creating a national movement for all West Africans

266

(2)

Organizing African workers

268

(4)

Charlotte Maxeke describes the impact of colonialism on women and the family

272

(3)

Education in the United States of America

275

(2)

Colonial rule equals taxes and forced labor

277

(4)

Colonial rule equals police harassment

281

(4)

Colonial rule equals censorship

285

(1)

The impact of World War II

286

(6)

The dream of the warrior

292

(2)

Freedom in our lifetime

294

(2)

Women and men on strike

296

(7)

Colonial officials take note of African discontent

303

(1)

Hendrik Verwoerd explains apartheid

304

(5)

Nelson Mandela's ``No Easy Walk to Freedom.''

309

(7)

Jomo Kenyatta in court

316

(3)

Mau Mau's daughter

319

(4)

The Freedom Charter

323

(2)

Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!

325

(3)

Verwoerd reaffirms South Africa's commitment to white supremacy

328

(3)

Patrice Lumumba writes his last letter to his wife

331

(4)

Part 4: The Contradictions of Post-Colonial Independence

335

(84)

Introduction

337

(3)

Frantz Fanon discusses the limits of African independence

340

(4)

Nkrumah on pan-Africanism as an answer to neo-colonialism

344

(3)

Julius Nyerere argues for African democracy, self-reliance, and socialism

347

(8)

The African National Congress (ANC) adopts a policy of violence

355

(2)

``The Civilized Man's Burden.''

357

(2)

Eduardo Mondlane rejects Portuguese apologetics

359

(2)

Is neo-colonialism rationalized imperialism?

361

(4)

A man of the people

365

(3)

Tearing things apart

368

(4)

Black consciousness

372

(3)

An emperor and his court

375

(4)

Who will start another fire?

379

(1)

The fate of political dissisents

379

(6)

The rebellion begins, South Africa, June 1976

385

(3)

Torture under apartheid

388

(3)

A task which shook my whole being

391

(5)

Another coup in Ghana

396

(2)

The crisis of the state in Africa

398

(6)

The elements of democracy in Africa

404

(3)

Negotiating democracy in South Africa

407

(2)

Scrubbing the furious walls of Mikuyu prison

409

(1)

An intimate genocide

410

(4)

Nelson Mandela and a new Africa

414

(5)

Index

419

WILLIAM H. WORGER is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Trained in African history at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and at Yale University, he is the author of South Africa's City of Diamonds.NANCY L. CLARK is Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where she also directs the University's honors program.EDWARD A. ALPERS is a Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Alpers is former dean of honors and undergraduate programs at UCLA, as well as former president of the African Studies Association, the largest international scholarly organization devoted to the study of Africa.

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