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Tables of Contents for Africa and the West
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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