Berlin Conference
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The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 was a meeting of colonial powers that concluded with the signing of the General Act of Berlin, an agreement regulating European colonisation and trade in Africa duri
The conference of Berlin, as illustrated in Illustrirte Zeitung
Press cartoon published in L'Illustration on 3 January 1885, showing German Chancellor Bismarck about to partition Africa
The conference of Berlin, as illustrated in German newspaper Die Gartenlaube
Cartoon depicting Leopold II sharing the Congo
Western European colonialism and colonization was the Western European policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over other societies and territories, exterminating the natives
Évolués in the Belgian Congo studying medicine
European colonial women being carried in hammocks by natives in Ouidah, Benin (known as French Dahomey during this period)
St. Paul's Indian Industrial School, Middlechurch, Manitoba, Canada, 1901. This school was part of the Canadian Indian residential school system.
Dutch colonial administrator of the South Moluccas, picture taken 1940