"It is [the Africans] who carry the 'Black man's burden...' In hewing out for himself a fixed abode in Africa, the white man has massacred the African in heaps...What the partial occupation of his soil by the white man has failed do; ...what the [machine gun] and the rifle, the slave gang, labour in the bows of the earth and the lash, have failed to do; what imported measles, smallpox and syphilis have failed I do; whatever the overseas slave trade failed to do; the power of modern capitalistic exploitation, assisted by modern engines of destruction, may have yet succeed in accomplishing....
Thus the African is really helpless against the material gods of the white man, as embodied in trinity of imperialism, capitalistic exploitation, and militarism." --Edward Morel, 1903
1. What was the impact of imperialism on the colonized territories in Africa, according to Morel?
A: According to Morel, colonized territories in Africa became helpless against the trinity of imperialism.
"Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile--
To serve your captives' needs;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child....
Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of host ye humor
(Ah, slowly;) toward the light:--
"Why brought he is from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?'"
--Rudyard Kipling, 1899
2. Quotes lines in Rudyard Kipling's poem that reflects his view of colonized peoples. What values did Kipling assume his readers shared with him?
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