NY State Curriculum Notes 

1.  British, French, Belgians, and Germans in Africa

   a. Scramble for Africa

   b. The Congress of Berlin

   c. African resistance—Zulu Empire

   d. Boer War

   e. Cecil Rhodes

   f. 19th-century anti-slave trade legislation

African Imperialism: 

General Links

• African History Sourcebook

• Imperialism and Colonialism in Africa

• Colonial Africa
• Internet African History Sourcebook: European Imperialism
• South Africa: Expansion of European Settlement
• South Africa: Industrialization and Imperialism
• Lesson Plan Comparing British and American Imperialism
• African History - Primary Sources

The Scramble for Africa

• Scramble for Africa

• Chief Moshweshewe: Letter to Sir George Grey, 1858. On the establishment of Basutoland

• Kaiser Wilhelm II :  A Place in the Sun, 1901 A speech calling for Germany to have an overseas empire. Africa was the target.

• Anthony Trollope: The Diamond Fields of South Africa, 1870 

• Sir Henry M. Stanley: How I Found Livingstone, 1871 

• Charles Dudley Warner: Up the Cataracts of the Nile, 1875   

• Paul du Chaillu: Travels in Africa, 1868-1870 

• Gustave Freensen: In The German South African Army, 1903-1904

The Congress of Berlin

• The Congress of Berlin

• The Congress of Berlin

• The Berlin Conference 1884
• Map of Europe after the Congress of Berlin, 1878.

Boer War

• The Boer War Remembered

• The Boer War South Africa, 1899-1902

• THE ANGLO-BOER WAR, 1899-1902

• Boer War from the Victorian Web

• Danie Theron -- Hero of the Anglo-Boer War

Cecil Rhodes

• Cecil Rhodes

• Guardian Century | 1899-1909 | Death of Mr. Cecil Rhodes

• Cecil Rhodes’ “Confession of Faith” of 1877

• Cecil Rhodes An outline historical biography
  

19th-century anti-slave trade legislation

• Epistle To William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade.

• 1833 Abolition of Slavery Act

• Anglo-Portuguese Anti-Slave trade Treaties etc

• The Slave Trade