Early 1900s caricature of the different types of colonizers in Africa
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Wow and a lot of truth in it. Side note the French were none to colonize, but also marry and procreate with folks they colonized with.
MischievousMonkey
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Kinda yeah, even though it displays a pretty cushioned view of the Germans and Frenchs imo.
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Veteran
Where did the cartoon originally run? An American publication?
MischievousMonkey
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It's German. Anti-colonial cartoon aimed at depicting the whole ordeal as a waste of time for their nation, while taking shots at their degenerate rivals.
Excuses. Africans need to build their country and stop bringing up the past.
get these nets
Veteran
Thanks. Interesting that the Belgian atrocities are referenced, and the German cartoonist implies that their colonies were hands off the indigenous people. Facts said different.
European people were really kept in the dark about the brutality and murder that went on in their colonies. I'd assume that propaganda like this cartoon was the norm in German media.
The genocidal actions of the Germans in Africa were a precursor to what they would allegedly do later in the 1930s and 40s to other groups. If members of those groups used their positions in media to report the earlier atrocities, perhaps they could have prevented what happened to them.
A.V.
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Wouldn't Haiti look different if the French mingle with their slaves? Unlike Spain which actually did.
That Belgian one
MischievousMonkey
Gor bu dëgër
I know that the abuses of King Leopold became pretty widely known in Belgium and was one of the reasons, or pretexts, motivating the buy-out of the colony by the state (which led to a ban of forced labor on paper but not in practice).
I don't know how much the other peoples knew, or cared to know though.
Bolded is very true. "First they came for..."
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Veteran
They did. That's how you got the mulatto/les gen de couleurs class. DR was different because they weren't agriculture heavy. It was more cattle-breeding and ranching, IIRC.
