Africana Studies. Intervention in Africa History Research Paper

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Various historical phases have highlighted how blacks have been discriminated against. A whole lot of extensive study on racism both in the past and modern world have laid the issue at stake bare. Further, it has offered room for possible comparisons and what the present society can do better. Although the situation has relatively improved with the growth in civilization, Africans’ plight in the ensuing results is misunderstood. On a global scale, Africans have been deemed inferior at some point or another and thus, questions linger on whether their colonial masters’ contributions are sufficient towards their economic strength and independence.
Since a long time ago, Africans have been on the receiving end. This assertion arises from the events preceding the Civil War in the United States (U.S.). Africans were offered hard labor in plantations while the Whites were their supervisors. Moreover, African parents lacked the freedom to raise their kids and at some point in the growth, they would be separated from them. Onwards, they would be sold or assigned to the master’s relatives (Serratore np). Another case of this extremity is the mere fact that white men would coerce black women to have sexual relationships with them. However, black men lacked the same privilege as white women. Surprisingly, George Washington has been banished in historical records for signing the bill demanding the freeing of slaves, but he refuted relinquishing his slaves. He used a rotational system whereby he would ship them in and out of states semi-annually (Schuessler np). These situations and their embrace from the Whites resulted in the colonization of Africa.
The end of the slave trade through the integration of the anti-slave trade legislation compelled the initiation of another form of competitive advantage. Commodity exports replaced the initial anti-slave trade legislation and were referred to as commercial transition. West Africa was the first region to experience this type of commercial transition before it expanded to East Africa (Frankema np). This establishment was a complete game-changer as the continuous drain of scarce labor was stopped. Instead, expansion of land-intensive forms of estates, communal forms, engaging smallholders, and tropical agriculture took center-stage. European powers perceived this as a chance to extend the economic progress and thus, establishing the colonial system. The colonial rule over African countries advanced the continent’s commodity export growth. Eventually, it is the colonial masters that orchestrated the construction of railways. Railways became an essential means of transport for the produced commodities from the inland locations to the coast where they would be shipped to other regions of the world. Besides, the extent of ...