Identifier: partitionofafri00kelt (find matches)
Title: The partition of Africa
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Keltie, John Scott, Sir, 1840-1927
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Publisher: London E. Stanford
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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w to closing the foreign slave-marketsand discouraging the internal slave-hunts. The Conference assembled at Brussels in November1889, and continued its sittings till 2nd July 1890,when a general Act was agreed to, embodying the con-clusions of their deliberations. The Conference Powers, equally animated, in the words of the preamble, bythe firm intention of putting an end to the crimes anddevastations engendered by the traffic in African slaves,protecting effectively the aboriginal populations of Africa,and ensuring for that vast continent the benefits ofpeace and civilisation, declared that the most effectivemeans for counteracting the slave-trade in the interiorof Africa are the following :— 1. Progressive organisation of the administrative,judicial, religious, and military services in the Africanterritories placed under the sovereignty or protectorateof civilised nations. 2. The gradual establishment in the interior, by thePowers to which the territories are subject, of strongly
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CONCLUSION 511 occupied stations in such a way as to make theirprotective or repressive action effectively felt in theterritories devastated by slave-hunting. 3. The construction of roads, and in particular ofrailways, connecting the advanced stations with thecoast, and permitting easy access to the inland waters,and to such of the upper courses of the rivers andstreams as are broken by rapids and cataracts, in viewof substituting economical and rapid means of transportfor the present means of carriage by men. 4. Establishment of steamboats on the inlandnavigable waters and on the lakes, supported byfortified posts established on the banks. 5. Establishment of telegraphic lines, ensuring thecommunication of the posts and stations with the coastand with the administrative centres. 6. Organisation of expeditions and flying columnsto keep up the communication of the stations with eachother and with the coast, to support repressive action,and to ensure the security of high-roads. 7. Restr

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