Africa and the West: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence

by Worger, William H.

• ISBN13: 9781573562478
• ISBN10: 1573562475
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-30
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vi
List of Maps	vi
Preface	vii
Part 1: Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade	1	(108)
Introduction	3	(2)
The beginnings of a regular European trade in slaves from Africa	5	(8)
The Pope grants to the Portuguese a monopoly of trade with Africa	13	(3)
The King of Spain regulates the importation of African slaves into the Americas	16	(1)
British attempts to break the Portuguese and Spanish monopolies of slave trading	17	(2)
A Jesuit justifies the trade in African slaves to a skeptical colleague	19	(1)
The importation of slaves into the Cape of Good Hope	20	(1)
An attempt to create an English monopoly of trade in West Africa	21	(1)
Sources of slaves for the Royal African Company	22	(1)
The log of the Arthur, a ship carrying slaves for the Royal African Company from West Africa to Barbados	23	(4)
The Council of the Indies answers questions from the King of Spain concerning the introduction of slaves into Spanish America	27	(2)
The voyage of the Hannibal, carrying slaves from West Africa to Barbados	29	(6)
Willem Bosman describes the Dutch trade for slaves on the West African Coast	35	(2)
In support of slavery and against monopoly	37	(2)
Venture Smith describes his capture into slavery	39	(3)
Olaudah Equiano becomes a slave	42	(8)
Anders Sparrman describes the treatment of slaves in South Africa	50	(4)
Alexander Falconbridge describes his experiences as a physician on slave ships	54	(10)
The plan of the slave ship Brookes	64	(1)
In support of the continued importation of slaves into South Africa	65	(2)
Mungo Park describes taking slaves from the interior of Africa to the coast	67	(10)
Britain and the United States enact legislation to abolish the trade in slaves	77	(4)
Ali Eisami recounts how he was taken into slavery and then freed	81	(4)
Samuel Crowther escapes slavery	85	(6)
The Asante king questions British motives in ending the slave trade	91	(2)
A slave revolt in South Africa	93	(5)
A Muslim explains the morality and practices of slavery	98	(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