Typical sentiments of a disgruntled slave owner

You are free to go, but you can stay on my land while you wait for your forty dollars, a mule and a plot of land. You will have to do some work to pay for your rent.

I hope you free slaves remember your place.

If you hit me, I’ll hang you
If you curse me, I’ll hang you
If you look at our women, I’ll hang you
If you disrespect me, I’ll hang you
If you sit next to me on the bus, I’ll hang you
If you build a Church, I’ll hang you
If you go to school, I’ll hang you
If you make me feel envious of you in anyway, I’ll hang you

These are the new righteous laws of the land. Ex slaves are dirty and they need to be kept away from clean white folk. You have been promoted to second class citizens, this is generous and reasonable status, more than what you deserve.

Now slavery is over we need to find some other way of making a healthy profit. I have consulted with my fellow nations of the civilised world, we have carved up Africa into controlling territories. We shall be responsible for the humane refinement of the remaining savages and the modernisation Africa. If your village lies on a border, your village will be divided. The mineral wealth will be taken from your countries for protection costs. We will build roads and railways to facilitate this extraction.

We will bring law and order to your country ...

It is illegal for an African to say he could not read English and he did not understand the small print, in which he exchanged his ancestral lands, the size of France, for a hand full of beads.

It is illegal for an African to say he does not want to work for Queen Victoria for free. This is punishable by death or the severing of hands.

It it illegal for Africans to stay on land that is needed by Europeans.

It is illegal for Africans to play the drum. This is Punishable by the severing of hands.

It is illegal for Africans to inform us of our missionaries defiling the young boys in the schools.

It is illegal for Africans to withdraw from the cleansing amorous advances of horny Europeans.

It is illegal for Africans to say, why is slavery is illegal and forced unpaid labour is legal.

It is illegal for Africans to complain

Contravening any of these laws is punishable by death of you, some of your friends and your dog.

By the grace of God, not your Gods, you will become civilised by any means necessary.

Abolition

The slave trade was Abolished in 1807. slavery continued for another 40 years in British colonies. By 1888 all slavery had officially ended by Europeans. Slavery was finally abolished in 1928.

Colonial Racketeering

The Scramble for Africa (or the Trampling of Africa) was the proliferation of conflicting European claims to African territory during the New Imperialism period, between the 1880s and the start of World War I. The diagram below shows how Africa was divide without the consent of a single African.

There were many casualties during the invasion of Africa, one side was using machine guns and the other was using arrows and spears. The demise of Africans was inevitable. After the conquest, demonstrations of brutality was used to keep the Africans submissive. The Europeans built roads and railways to ravish the African interior. The mining and infrastructure was built with forced unpaid labour. Those who refused to work were shot or they had their hands chopped off.

The Germans lust for land coupled with some lame excuses compelled them to commit genocide in Namibia.

Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha of the German army said, 'I wipe out rebellious tribes with streams of blood and streams of money. Only following this cleansing can something new emerge'. Von Trotha brought with him to Namibia 10,000 heavily-armed men and a plan for war.

Under his command, the German troops slowly drove the Herero warriors to a position where they could be hemmed in by attack on three sides. The fourth side offered escape; but only into the killing wastes of the Kalahari desert. The German soldiers were paid well to pursue the Herero into this treacherous wilderness. They were also ordered to poison the few water-holes there. Others set up guard posts along a 150-mile border: any Herero trying to get back was killed.

On October 2, 1904, von Trotha issued his order to exterminate the Herero from the region. 'All the Herero must leave the land. If they refuse, then I will force them to do it with the big guns. Any Herero found within German borders, with or without a gun, will be shot. No prisoners will be taken. This is my decision for the Herero people'.

Over three quarters of the Herero people were killed by the Germans.

Germany offered its first apology for their crime in 2004, 100 years after the genocide. The Germans wasted no time apologising for the Jewish holocaust and they even paid reparations very quickly too. A group of Herero has filed a case against Germany in the United States demanding $4bn in compensation, they received nothing.

King Leopold’s Belgium was not a major player in the slave trade, but it seems as though it felt like it had in committing atrocities and they wanted to play catch up with a relentless passion. In retrospect some people believe he was the spawn of Satan. The Belgium Congo sunk in despair.

Plantations sprung up everywhere. Forced labour practices were overlooked again, ignorance was buried deep in the hearts of Europeans. Africans continued to suffer as Europeans got rich. Judgement day woes continued to escalate for the morally deficient Europeans.

AFRICA WEPT.

A testimony to the mindset of Europeans during colonisation is the plight of Angola and Mozambique at the hands of the Portuguese. During the African Independence era when Portugal decided to leave their meal tickets, they became hell bent on destroying the infrastructure before their departure. They went through enormous effort removing fixtures off every building, sockets, taps, furniture, anything which could be taken was taken. They filled up elevator shafts with concrete. Their most sadistic crime was to fill up the sewers with concrete. Many people died from the diseased actions of the Portuguese.

The epitome of arrogance was the naming of the territory Rhodesia. How is it possible to named a country after a Englishman who killed the inhabitants. Genocide land would have been a more appropriate name.

In 1990s South Africa the bastion of subjugation in Africa, finally succumbed to international pressure and her government gave up their racist ideologies.