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Guns in South Africa.pdf - 1 views

  • In 1812, after commenting on the extraordinary animals of the South African interior, the famous English traveler William J. Burchell wished that guns would spread more extensively to help people kill off the unwanted beasts.
  • In 1859, Natal required all Africans to register their firearms with the lieutenant governor. This did not totally disarm Africans, but it was a crucial first step.
    • khenso221117289
       
      Africans used firearms it wasn't only the Europeans
  • Many Africans had to surrender their guns under the terms of a new Peace Preservation Act passed in 1878
    • khenso221117289
       
      this act wasn't fair because it only disarmed the Africans hence at the period Africans thought they were equal to the Europeans
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    • khenso221117289
       
      Firearms in the southern hemisphere of africa were not brought up to fight a war according to William J in 1812
THABELO SADIKI

Firearms in Nineteenth-Century Botswana: The Case of Livingstone's 8-Bore Bullet.pdf - 3 views

  • Possession of guns, accompanied by a rapid adoption of new military as well as hunting tactics for their use, played a key role in the reformation of local polities during the midnineteenth century
    • THABELO SADIKI
       
      Firearms changed the tactics that were used to do things traditionally.
  • Possession of guns, accompanied by a rapid adoption of new military as well as hunting tactics for their use, played a key role in the reformation of local polities during the midnineteenth century
    • THABELO SADIKI
       
      Guns changed the way things were used to be done in African societies
  • Besides the company he kept, Sechele’s own investment in high calibre rifles and superior shot is understandable in the context of his then central role in the lucrative regional ivory trade, which provided him with a steady source of income for the purchase of munitions and other goods
    • THABELO SADIKI
       
      Ivory seems like to play a crucial role in the number of firearms that were imported in Africa because it seems like many traders wanted it in exchange for guns
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  • Besides leading to a rapid decline in wildlife, and consequent expansion of arable and pastoral lands, hunting with guns reinforced social stratification in many areas.
    • THABELO SADIKI
       
      Changed the way of hunting and now they were using more advanced weapon
  • To Europeans wishing to trade, he was known as a reliable supplier but demanding negotiator
    • THABELO SADIKI
       
      Seems like an influential person
  • e Lake via Sechele’s, Capt. Ernest Shelly, Henry Bushe and a Mr Ewart, were diverted. McCabe, who in 1846 had also had his wagons confiscated by the Boers for carrying weapons to Sechele, was ultimately fined for publishing the route to the Lake. 81
mpilosibisi

Missionaries - 0 views

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    This image shows some of the African countries who are part of the records from Colonial Missionaries.
okuhle

'War Can't Be Made with Kid Gloves': The Impact of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 on the Fa... - 5 views

    • okuhle
       
      During the war there was a lot of bloodshed from British's side. To destroy the Zulus they burnt 23 out of 27 of their huts, leaving them homeless.
    • okuhle
       
      The British did not end in burning Zulu huts, they captured the livestock that belonged to the Zulus. According to the British they wanted to leave Zulus weak and defeated.
    • okuhle
       
      The Anglo-Zulu War had a negative impact on the Zulus more, it caused more damage for the Zulus. The economy deprived as Zulus suffered huge losses of livestock and were left homeless
matimbababsy

April 1876 - Document - Nineteenth Century Collections Online - 1 views

  • All these present ivory trades, notwithstanding what has been done to stop the Slave Trade by sea, are worked in concert with and by means of the Slave Trade.
  • These slaves are mostly taken to Jerige (the ľoľniľv Ù- n d ^ Κ ,n °o to sell there for ivory-a trader now making a journey to one'diivcd'ľ t^get Jes, and then another to dispose of them again m another ,i;..,.,.tm,i not finding a ready sale for them at the coast.
  • ivory trade
ntswaki

The Tensions of Internationalism: Transnational Anti-Slavery in the 1880s and 1890s - 1 views

  • In 1888 Cardinal Lavigerie, the Archbishop of Algiers and Carthage, launched his ‘anti-slavery crusade’. Drawing attention to slave raids in Africa and to the East African slave trade, this initiative resulted in the foundation of several new antislavery associations.
    • ntswaki
       
      this journal focuses on the final two decades of the nineteenth century and the period in which the transatlantic slave trade had all but ceased, with Cuba (1880/86) and Brazil (1888) being the last parts of the Americas where slavery was abolished
  • nti-slavery; empire; internationalism; humanitarianism; transnational history; civilising mission
    • ntswaki
       
      it also gives full understanding on the issue of anti-slavery and civilising mission on this on this journal we come to understand the full history of anti-slavery, my point of choosing this journal it was to make sure that i come to understnad more about the other sides of slaves and the full history of slavery not looking only on the zanzibar topic
bandilezwane

Mission in East Africa.pdf - 1 views

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  • people manifest in the lives of the missionaries. Since mission stations were 'as efficacious for the extension of European influence as the opening of a government station',7 the next logical step was to provide western education. Schools became a means of downgrading African customs and of drawing children away from their traditional environment. Seen by many missionaries as the great means of christianizing Africa, schools had the effect of putting the child rather than the adult at the centre of Church concern, producing the situation in which, as has been said, 'while Jesus taught adults and blessed children, we teach children and bless adults'
    • bandilezwane
       
      Missions in East Africa like in many parts of Africa has always been influenced by downgrading the African customs by promoting Christianity by introducing Christianity in the curriculum of the education system in east Africa
nicolezondo

'Cloths with Names': Luxury Textile Imports in Eastern Africa, c. 1800-1885.pdf - 1 views

  • ivory
  • ivory
  • ivory
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  • The same thirty or so cloth types were sought by élites, and, increasingly , the general population, across the vast area of Sub-Saharan eastern Africa engaged in the ivory , slaves, gum copal and spices which, at its peak in the 1870s, radiated from Zanzibar to Somalia in the north, to Mozambique in the south, as far west as Uganda and east to Madagascar and the Comoros Islands.
  • As the export ivory trade in particular expanded far into the interior of
  • As the export ivory trade in particular expanded far into the interior of eastern Africa in the nineteenth century , rising wealth and changing fashions led increasing numbers of people to give up their local barkcloth or hide dress for imported woven cloth.
    • nicolezondo
       
      Historically, East Africa was well-known for its wide trade networks that crossed the continent and brought together people from varied racial and ethnic origins. These networks extended as far as east India and deep into the interior of Central Africa.
  • In 1856, English explorer Richard Francis Burton, the first European to cross the central ivory ‘cloths with names’.
  • s the ivory frontier expanded, so too did the
  • However, ivory kunguru’s fortunes. Kunguru is the probable origin of the iconic ‘Maasai plaid’, the red and
diegothestallion

Further Correspondence Respecting East Africa - Document - Nineteenth Century Collectio... - 2 views

  • Having been for several years established as merchants in Zanzibar our friends are constantly receiving, either on their own account, or that of their constituents, large parcels of ivory, duty on which they have heretofore paid to the Imperial British East Africa Company, when caravans come by the Mombasa route, and to the German Govern¬ ment when through their territory
  • his latter can only be avoided by shipping the ivory in its entirety as received from Uganda, or as expressed by the Com¬ pany's notification " not breaking bulk."
    • diegothestallion
       
      BREAKING BULK IS THE SYSTEM OF TRANSPORTING GOODS IN PIECES SEPARATELY, RATHER THAN BEING SHIPPED IN A CONTAINER. ACCOURDING TO THE PROVIDED STATEMENT IS THAT EAST AFRICA SPEND LOT OF CAPITAL TO EXPORT THEIR IVORY BECAUSE IS SHIPPED IN PIECES INSTEAD OF SHIPPING THE IVORIES IN BULK.
  • From the foregoing you will, they trust, see the necessity for sorting the ivory, and the impossibility of complying with the Company's regulations of not breaking bulk, so that, to deal with the ivory for the purposes of trade, and as they have heretofore done, entails, under present conditions, a duty of 30 per cent., 15 per cent, to the Government in Uganda, and 15 per cent, to the Company at the coast
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  • i.e., that such parcels contain, as a rule, three distinct descriptions of ivory, one of which is suitable for shipment to Europe, one for the New York market, where it is pur¬ chased in Zanzibar by the American merchants, and the remaining description is bought by the Indian traders in Zanzibar, being suitable for Indian requirements, and after being cut up, a certain portion is shipped from India to the London market
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