From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial ... 5000 African captives annually. By the 18th century, 45,000 Africans are transported annually on British ships.

A French map of Africa ... France used colonial troops along the Western Front). That said, German General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck — commander of forces in the German East Africa campaign ...

As late as the 1870s, only 10% of the continent was under direct European control, with Algeria held by France, the Cape Colony and ... the Sudan, British East Africa (Kenya and Uganda), British ...

A proposal to settle a certain limited number of Jewish refugees from Germany in the british east African colony of kenya is now under study by the Colonial Office, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency ...

Around 1750, the British ... Africa or the Caribbean. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, or 300,000 people, were enslaved. Poverty in Northern Ireland forced a massive flight of Scots-Irish to the colonies.

Europe's arbitrary post-colonial borders left Africans bunched into countries that don't represent their heritage, a contradiction that still troubles them today. When the nations of Nigeria and ...