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Title: Outlines of nineteenth century history
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: History, Modern
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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?ort Elizabeth THE PARTITION OF AFRICA 91 89. The Partition of Africa.—The discoveries of Stanley andthe founding of the Congo Free State were the signal for a scram-ble among the powers of Europe for African territory. England,France, and Germany were the strongest competitors and theygot the largest shares. In the short space of fifteen years Africabecame a dependency of Europe. The only native states retain-ing their independence by the end of the nineteenth centurywere Abyssinia and Morocco, together with the negro republic ofLiberia, the government of which is in the hands of Americanfreedmen or their descendants. This transference of the control of the affairs of Africa fromthe hands of its native inhabitants or those of Asiatic Moham-medan intruders to the hands of Europeans is without questionthe most momentous transaction in the history of that continent,and one which must shape its future destiny.5 In the following sections of this chapter, in which we proposebriefly to re

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