British EmpireSecond Analysis PaperBritish expansion during the late 19th century primarily focused around the scramble for Africa. Although there had been a British and greater European presence in Africa prior to the last two decades of the 19th century it was primarily coastal and revolved aroun...

IntroductionIt was in the early 17th century that the first white man set foot in what was or perhaps even is the most intriguing land of all - 'Black Africa'. It was the 'age of exploration'. European explorers went around the world, visiting various lands and coming in contact with all kinds of pe...

Transatlantic Slave Trade From the 1520s to the 1860s an estimated 11 to 12 million African men, women, and children were forcibly embarked on European vessels for a life of slavery in the Western Hemisphere. Many more Africans were captured or purchased in the interior of the continent but a large ...