Imperialism in Africa
By: Tyler, Vivienne, Rebecca and Brady
Poems
The White Mans Burden by Rudyard Kipling
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.
Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.
The Black Mans Burden by Mack Reynolds
Take up the Black Mans burden---
Send forth the worst ye breed,
And bind our sons in shackles
To serve your selfish greed;
To wait in heavy harness
Be-devilled and beguiled
Until the Fates remove you
From a world you have defiled.
Take up the black Mans burden---
Your lies may still abide
To veil the threat of terror
And check our racial pride;
Your cannon, church and courthouse
May still our sons constrain
To seek the white mans profit
And work the white mans gain.
Song
Primary source
"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life." - Cecil Rhodes
"To open civilization to the only part of our globe which it has not yet penetrated, to pierce the darkness which hangs over entire peoples, is, I dare say, a crusade worthy of this century of progress." - King Leopold II
Sources
http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/eme/18/FC122
http://world-history.nmhblogs.org/2011/11/22/the-white-mans-burden-analysis/
http://world-history.nmhblogs.org/tag/european-imperialism/http://www.compuhigh.com/demo/worldhist/lesson10.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa
http://www.slideshare.net/rhalter/european-imperialism-in-africa
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/modules/lesson9/lesson9.php?s=0
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-colonization-of-africa.html