Imperialism and Colonization
Certain European industrial societies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were colonial powers. The colonization of Africa is dealt with in terms of political, economic and cultural domination.

Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas - The Mariners' Museum
http://www.mariner.org/captivepassage/introduction/index.html

This online exhibition examines the transatlantic slave trade and seeks to increase understanding of this maritime epic and its legacies in the modern world.

British Empire - The Rise of the British Empire - Africa
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/empire/g1/cs2/default.htm

Britain's empire in Africa developed much later than in India or America. However, Britain had strong links with different parts of Africa long before the 19th century. It began with the slave trade in the 1700s. By the later 1800s Britain had taken control of huge territories in north, central and southern Africa. Look at the background and the sources in this case study and see what you can discover about the motives of the British.

From Slavery to Freedom - The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html

From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 presents 396 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics.

European Imperialism
• Leopold II

• Almami Samori Touré

• Henry Morton Stanley

BBC - History - Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841 - 1904)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stanley_sir_henry_morton.shtml

• An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II, King of the Belgians and
Sovereign of the Independent State of Congo (G.W. Williams)

• The White Man’s Burden (Kipling)

" The White Man’s Burden": Kipling’s Hymn to U.S. Imperialism
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5478/

Poetry Analysis—"The White Man’s Burden"
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6609/

This activity asks students to consider British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 poem "The White Man’s Burden"—which urged the U. S. to take up the "burden" of empire, as had Britain and other European nations—and several satirical and critical responses to it.

• What Was Jim Crow?(Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia)

Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University
http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/

What was Jim Crow?
http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/what.htm

• The Origin of "Jim Crow" (Afro-American Almanac)

The Origin of " Jim Crow" - Afro-American Almanac
http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/jcrow.htm

Elsewhere: It is important for students to learn that Japanese imperialism was a factor in Asia in the same period.

Japanese Imperialism
• Tintin and the Blue Lotus(Hergé)
• Shintoism
• Emperor Mutsuhito (Meiji era)
• Sea of Japan/East Sea