Institution based on a relationship of dominance and submission, whereby one person owns another and can exact from that person labor or other services.
From Encyclopedia of World Trade From Ancient Times to the Present Atlantic trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
A movement culminating in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that aimed first to end the slave trade, and then to abolish the institution of slavery and emancipate slaves. The movement took place in Europe, mainly in the UK, and in the USA.
From Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations
The rapid, competitive Great Power partition of Africa during the latter third of the nineteenth century, in which formal and informal spheres of influence were converted into colonies by annexation or conquest.
Empire covering, at its height in the 1920s, about a sixth of the landmass of the Earth, all of its lands recognizing the United Kingdom (UK) as their leader.
From Encyclopedia of African History Between about 1770 and 1880, exploration of Africa made possible accurate maps and publishable information on the continent.
From Chambers Dictionary of World History The diamond mining company formed by Cecil Rhodes in 1887 from the amalgamation of several companies operating at Kimberley, Cape Province.
From Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations
A section of West African coast, now part of Ghana, named for the primary product taken from it by the Portuguese, who first reached it in 1471 and then built a fortification known as Elmina in 1482.
From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather guide Diamond-mining capital city of Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Its mines have been controlled by De Beers Consolidated Mines since 1887.
From A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires The Berlin Conference has often been regarded as the beginning of the partition of Africa. Yet the ‘Scramble for Africa’ started well before it.
From The companion to British history
The uitlanders (non-Dutch Europeans) in the Boer republics (especially the Transvaal) represented the enterprise and capital, paid the taxes but had no rights. Numerous and noisy, they conspired (autumn 1895) against the Boer Govt. of Paul Kruger.
From The Reader's Companion to Military History 1899–1902. The Boer War began when Sir Alfred Milner, the British high commissioner in South Africa, goaded the Boers in the South African republics into declaring war on October 12, 1899.
From Chambers Dictionary of World History The bellicose venture by Mussolini aimed at winning popular support at home, an increase in Italian prestige and strategic gains to pressurize the British in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Mineral, one of two crystalline forms of the element carbon (see allotropy), the hardest natural substance known, used as a gem and in industry.