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    "Se (Before the 19th century, Europeans knew my very little about the interior of Africa, Between WA 1500 and 1800, European presence in Africa was mostly about buying/and selling slaves from local, ahiefs, Slave ships would arrive, trade their pots, x. cloth and guns for West Aftican slaves, then set e SS _sail for the Americas. These ships anchored off the SQ Aftican coastline and their erews seldom left the ship because of the rsk of catching malaria or other tropical diseases. Europeans were s0 vulnerable to these diseases that the west coast of Africa, from the Senegal River to Angola, became What Was the Driving Force Behind European Imperialism in Africa? and the introduction of disease, as many as 10,000,000 people. It was not a good beginning for European imperialism in Africa. During the same years that Leopold was buying the Congo, other Buropean leaders were becoming very aware of two things: First, Aftica was filled with incredible natural resources; sec- ond,, among the European powers. Otto von Bismarck e Ou. of Germany proposed that a conference be held "09, in Berlin in 1884 and 1885 to divide up Africa who known as “the white man’s grave.” In 1807, the British out- Jawed the trans-Atlantic slave trade and in 1833, slavery itself. With the end of slavery, European interests in the con- ‘< tinent shifted to imperialism and seizing colonies; Serious .

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