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Archives of Empire

Volume 2. The Scramble for Africa
  • Edited by: Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2004
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A collection of original writings and documents from British colonialism in Africa.

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Barbara Harlow is Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

Mia Carter is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

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“Archives of Empire offers a valuable and original intervention in contemporary studies of imperialism, providing a rich array of source material pertaining to the imperial project and the wide-ranging grounds for its critique.”—Anne McClintock, author of Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest

“Archives of Empire is a substantial and valuable project containing a generous sampling of key primary texts for understanding both the crucial events in and the debates around British imperialism in the nineteenth century.”—David Lloyd, coeditor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital

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    Frontmatter

    i
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    CONTENTS

    vii
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    Acknowledgments

    xv
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    General Introduction: Readings in Imperialism and Orientalism

    xvii
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    Volume Introduction: The Scramble for Africa

    1
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  • I . THE BERLIN CONFERENCE 1885: MAKING/MAPPING HISTORY
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    Introduction: The Scramble for Africa: From the Conference at Berlin to the Incident at Fashoda

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    Barbara Harlow
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    Chronology of Events

    16
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    Africa in 1886: The Scramble Half Complete [map]

    17
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    Africa after the Scramble, 1912 [map]

    18
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    Africa 1898, with Charter Companies [map]

    19
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    Excerpts from Heart of Darkness

    20
    Joseph Conrad
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    Africa

    21
    G. W. F. Hegel
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    General Act of the Conference of Berlin

    28
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    ‘‘The Black Baby’’ (1894) [illustration]

    29
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    International Rivalry and the Berlin Conference

    47
    Arthur Berriedale Keith
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    ‘‘The ‘Irrepressible’ Tourist’’ (1885) [illustration]

    59
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    Excerpt from ‘‘The Modern Traveller’’

    60
    Hilaire Belloc
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    The Fashoda Incident

    65
    Winston Churchill
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    Geography and Statecraft

    76
    Lord Alfred Milner
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    ‘‘Marchez! Marchand!’’ (1898) [illustration]

    77
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    Excerpt from Travels in Africa during the Years 1882–1886

    79
    Wilhelm Junker
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    ‘‘Africa Shared Out’’ (1899) [editorial with cartoon]

    81
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  • II. THE BODY POLITIC : RATIONALIZING RACE
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    Introduction: The Body Politic: Rationalizing Race

    84
    Mia Carter and Barbara Harlow
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  • SLAVES
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    The African Slave Trade

    93
    William Wilberforce
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    William Pitt the Younger Indicts the Slave Trade and Forsees a Liberated Africa

    100
    William Pitt the Younger
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    The Nigger Question

    108
    Thomas Carlyle
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    The Noble Savage

    134
    Charles Dickens
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  • SPECIES
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    Moral and Intellectual Characteristics of the Three Great Varieties

    143
    Joseph Arthur Gobineau
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    Struggle for Existence

    153
    Charles Darwin
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    On the Formation of the Races of Man

    160
    Charles Darwin
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    Excerpt from ‘‘Darwin’’

    167
    Digain Williams
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    Comparative Physiognomy

    169
    James W. Redfield
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    Excerpts from The Future of Science

    178
    Ernest Renan
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  • SELF-GOVERNANCE
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    Nation-Making

    189
    Walter Bagehot
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    The Primitive Man—Intellectual

    195
    Herbert Spencer
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    The Principles of the Relations of Our Civilization to the Tropics

    208
    Benjamin Kidd
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    Excerpts from Kafir Socialism

    222
    Dudley Kidd
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    How the Leopard Got His Spots

    232
    Rudyard Kipling
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  • III. THE POLITICAL CORPS
  • THE MISSION
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    Introduction: The Mission: Christianity, Civilization, and Commerce

    243
    Mia Carter and Barbara Harlow
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    Excerpts from Salvation Army Songs

    247
    William Booth
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    Dr. Livingstone’s Cambridge Lectures

    253
    David Livingstone
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    Excerpts from How I Found Livingstone

    278
    Henry M. Stanley
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    Livingstone’s Journeys, 1841–1856 [map]

    279
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    Preparing the Empire: Livingstone and Stanley in Central Africa

    300
    M. B. Synge
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    In Memory of Dr. Livingstone

    304
    Elizabeth Rundle Charles
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    Dr. Livingstone

    306
    Bartle Frere
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    Influence of Christianity upon Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races

    319
    Joseph Arthur Gobineau
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    The Bishop and the Philosopher

    328
    Matthew Arnold
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    Excerpts from The Surplus

    350
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    Excerpts from The Salvation Army British Empire Exhibition Handbook

    358
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  • The Administration: Lugard and the royal niger company
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    Introduction: Inheritors of Empire, Agents of Change: Lord Lugard and Mary Kingsley

    366
    Mia Carter and Barbara Harlow
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    Royal Charter Granted to the National African Company, Later Called the Royal Niger Company

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    Selected Correspondence: The Royal Niger Company

    380
    George Taubman Goldie and Frederick Lugard
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    Exerpts from The Diaries of Lord Lugard: Nigeria

    388
    Frederick Lugard
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    Duties of Political Officers and Miscellaneous Subjects

    402
    Frederick Lugard
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    Excerpts from The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa

    417
    Frederick Lugard
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    The Clash of Cultures

    439
    Mary Kingsley
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    A Letter to the Editor of ‘‘The New Africa’’

    457
    Mary Kingsley
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    Excerpts from A Tropical Dependency

    460
    Flora L. Shaw
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  • The Administration: Cecil J. Rhodes And The British South Africa Company
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    INTRODUCTION Cecil J. Rhodes: Colossus or Caricature?

    475
    Barbara Harlow
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    Excerpt from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland

    478
    Olive Schreiner
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    ‘‘The Rhodes Colossus’’ (1892) [illustration]

    480
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    ‘‘My Career Is Only Beginning!’’ (1896) [illustration]

    481
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    ‘‘South Africa before and after Cecil Rhodes’’ (1896) [map]

    483
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    We Abandon Hope

    484
    H. Rider Haggard
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    My Uncle’s Gift Is Many Times Multiplied

    492
    John Buchan
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    Excerpts from The Speeches of Cecil Rhodes 1881–1900

    496
    Cecil John Rhodes
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    Excerpts from Men, Mines, and Animals in South Africa

    529
    Randolph S. Churchill
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    Personal Reminiscences of Mr. Rhodes

    531
    L. S. Jameson
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    The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes

    538
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    The Burial

    560
    Rudyard Kipling
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  • IV. CRISES OF EMPIRE
  • Gordon at Khartoum
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    Introduction: Gordon at Khartoum: From Cavil to Catastrophe

    566
    Barbara Harlow
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    Chronology of Events

    569
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    Excerpts from The Journals of Major-General C. G. Gordon, C. B. at Kartoum

    569
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    ‘‘At Last!’’ (1885) [illustration]

    572
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    ‘‘Too Late!’’ (1885) [illustration]

    573
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    Letters to Mary Gordon

    578
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    The End of General Gordon

    580
    Lytton Strachey
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    Relief Expedition

    583
    Evelyn Baring
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    Excerpts from Gordon at Khartoum

    591
    Wilfred S. Blunt
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    The Desertion of General Gordon

    596
    Randolph H. S. Churchill
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    Excerpt from In Relief of Gordon

    600
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    Excerpt from Fire and Sword in the Sudan

    602
    Rudolf C. Slatin Pasha
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    The Siege and Fall of Khartum

    603
    Major F. R. Wingate
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    Act the Fifth: The End

    616
    John Buchan
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    ‘‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy’’

    622
    Rudyard Kipling
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    The Graphic Christmas Number, 1887

    624
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    ‘‘Gordon’s Dream—The Martyr-Hero of Khartoum’’ (1887) [illustration]

    625
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  • The Anglo-Boer war
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    Introduction: The Boer War: Accusations and Apologias

    629
    Barbara Harlow
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    Excerpt from An English–South African’s View of the Situation

    635
    Olive Schreiner
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    ‘‘Across the Dark Continent’’ (1899) [illustration]

    636
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    Excerpt from A History of the Transvaal

    644
    H. Rider Haggard
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    Political Position in Cape Colony

    647
    J. A. Hobson
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    The Absent-Minded Beggar

    651
    Rudyard Kipling
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    Mr Thomas Atkins

    653
    E. J. Hardy
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    D. F. Advertiser. Kimberley, friday, february 16, 1900

    659
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    Excerpt from Report of a Visit to the Camps of Women and Children in the Cape and Orange River Colonies

    665
    Emily Hobhouse
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    Excerpt from What I Remember

    671
    Millicent Garrett Fawcett
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    Prisoners of War

    679
    Winston Churchill
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    Methods of Barbarism

    683
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    Suggestions for a New Departure

    685
    W. T. Stead
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    Further Charges against British Troops

    696
    Arthur Conan Doyle
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    Excerpt from Hague Convention (II) with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land, 29 July 1899

    705
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    Treaty of Vereeniging, 31 May 1902

    706
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  • The Congo
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    Introduction: The Congo: Abominations and Denunciations

    711
    Barbara Harlow
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    The Congo State

    715
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    The Congo Report

    715
    Roger Casement
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    The 1903 Diary

    727
    Roger Casement
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    An Open Letter to Roger Casement

    739
    Joseph Conrad
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    Native Life under Congo State Rule

    741
    E. D. Morel
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    Excerpts from History of the Congo Reform Movement

    757
    E. D. Morel
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    An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II

    770
    George Washington Williams
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    King Leopold’s Soliloquy

    781
    Mark Twain
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    Excerpts from The Crime of the Congo

    800
    Arthur Conan Doyle
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    ‘‘The Guilt of Delay’’ (1909) [illustration]

    815
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    INDEX

    817
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