Blog #5: European Exploration and the Conquest of Africa



    The Europeans with all of the force and resources used to capture African Americans, for whom they viewed as a lower class of people. Even though the African American proved many times over to be the superior race, and this was proven by the perseverance of strength exhibited by African Americans. The Europeans still tried to seek different methods to capture African Americans for enslavement to provide free work on their establishments. The use of force on a race that they thought would be vulnerable did not come as easy, the resistance to the use of violence was met with violence from the African Americans. The use of forced labor came with a price, death. The Europeans had access to weapons like guns and was able to utilize them to capture African Americans, but even the use of guns did not remove the instilled will of a Strong African American that had traditions within them, that drove them to prevail. The diminishment of free labor subsided around 1884 and was replaced with the Europeans keen interest in Africas' resources i.e. rubber, coal, diamonds. The weakness of Africas' political was a way for the Europeans to take over and obtain and maintain control. The Europeans proved guideline's to follow to organize law enforcement and to give proper roles on the creation of a government. The creation of this political structure among the Africans pitted against one another. Apartheid on  delegated the level and amount of education that would or could be received by Africans, where they resided or worked. Apartheid was nothing less than structured slavery, this caused waves in the African Society until Political leaders like Nelsen Mandela fought diligently at any cost to abolish Apartheid.  Africa became too vulnerable to maintain themselves due to the above and could not think of providing to a global market.