The Black Man's Burden

by Edmund Dene Morel

THE BLACK MAN'S BURDEN

 

"TO THOSE WHO HAVE UNDERSTOOD: TO THOSE
WHO LOVE THE NATIVES OF AFRICA."

(From the statue by the late Herbert Ward, the African explorer)

THE

BLACK MAN'S
BURDEN

 

BY

E. D. MOREL

Author of "Nigeria: its peoples and its problems"; "Affairs of West Africa"; "King Leopolds Rule in Africa"; "Red Rubber"; "Great Britain and the Congo"; "The British Case in French Congo": "Africa and the Peace of Europe"; "Ten Years of Secret Diplomacy"; "Truth and the War."

 

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DEDICATION

 

To My Friends,
W.A.C. and E.H.C.
This Book is Dedicated with
many grateful thoughts.

CONTENTS

PAGE
Frontispiece
Dedication			v.
Introduction by the Author			vii.
EXPLANATORY
Chapter	I.—	The White Man's Burden	3
Chapter„	II.—	The Black Man's Burden	7
PART ONE
FIRST PERIOD.—The Slave Trade
Chapter„	III.—	The Story of the Slave Trade	15
PART TWO
SECOND PERIOD.—Invasion, Political Control, Capitalistic Exploitation
	A.—	Episodes in the Struggle for the Soil
Foreword			27
Chapter	IV.—	The Story of Southern Rhodesia	29
Chapter„	V.—	The Story of Southern Rhodesia (continued)	37
Chapter„	VI.—	The Story of German South-West Africa	66
	B.—	Episodes in the Establishment of Political Control
Foreword			71
Chapter	VII.—	The Story of Morocco	73
Chapter„	VIII.—	The Story of Tripoli	87
	C.—	Episodes in Capitalistic Exploitation.
Foreword			105–107
Chapter	IX.—	The Story of the Congo Free State	109
Chapter„	X.—	The Story of the French Congo	127
Chapter„	XI.—	The Story of Angola and the "Cocoa Islands"	149
PART THREE
THIRD PERIOD.—Reparation and Reform
Chapter	XII.—	The Land and its Fruits	163
Chapter„	XIII.—	Administrative Problems and the Land	197
Chapter„	XIV.—	What a League of Nations could do to Protect Tropical Africa from the Evils of Capitalistic Exploitation and Militarism	215