The partition of Africa . rtly from the interior to Egypt and the Mediterraneanstates. Denmark had the honour to be the firstEuropean state to prohibit its subjects (1792) fromengaging in the slave-trade. In 1807 the slave-tradewas declared illegal for all British subjects. In thesame year the United States passed a law forbiddingthe importation of slaves into the Union. Between1 807 and 1 81 5 most of the other great powers assumedthe same position as England, and by 181 5 the slave-trade was chiefly carried on under the flags of Spainand Portugal. In that year, at the Congress of Vienna,a de
The partition of Africa . rtly from the interior to Egypt and the Mediterraneanstates. Denmark had the honour to be the firstEuropean state to prohibit its subjects (1792) fromengaging in the slave-trade. In 1807 the slave-tradewas declared illegal for all British subjects. In thesame year the United States passed a law forbiddingthe importation of slaves into the Union. Between1 807 and 1 81 5 most of the other great powers assumedthe same position as England, and by 181 5 the slave-trade was chiefly carried on under the flags of Spainand Portugal. In that year, at the Congress of Vienna,a declaration was signed by the Powers that the tradewas repugnant to humanity, and that its abolition washighly desirable. During the long Napoleonic wars the possessions ofEngland, France, and Holland on the west coastfrequently changed hands; but except in the case ofEgypt, the struggle for colonial possessions did notgreatly affect Africa. Let us now see how the partitionof the Continent stood in the memorable year 181 CHAPTER VII THE POSITION IN I 8 I 5 The struggle between France and England—The Colonies and theMother Country — Imperialism and Federation — Europes share inAfrica in 1815—Portugal in West Africa—Portuguese claims in theinterim—Cape Colony—Portugal on the East Coast—Central Africa. PROFESSOR Seeley, in his Expansion of England, The r J * struggle maintains that the great aim of Napoleon in his pro- betweenlonged struggle with this country was to secure supremacy the seas. However this may be, Napoleonwell knew that such supremacy would give to Francethe political and commercial leadership of the world.* Happily for the world at large, Napoleon failed,so that when he was finally crushed in 181 5 Britaini^mained supreme at home and abroad. With theInception of some patches in India, the deadlycolony of Cayenne in South America, a few WestIndia Islands, and the islets of St. Pierre and Miquelonoff Newfoundland, the only foreign p
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