Glimpses of the Ages (Volume 2); Or, the Superior and Inferior Races, So-Called, Discussed in the Light of Science and History (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill Britain Eliminating the " Unfit," or The Manner Coloured British Subjects are brought into the Empire KANO AND SOKOTO FROM the example of the Cecilian law of the " cutting up of the dying nations by the living nations," we pass to those of the Rhodesian law, of the hurling of the " unfit " to the wall. This Rhodesian law will be considered under two main divisions: I. The manner coloured British subjects are brought into the Empire; II. The manner coloured British subjects are treated within the Empire. And the second head will be discussed under three subdivisions: (a) Certain popular fallacies; (b) Political and economic conditions of coloured British subjects; (c) Social conditions of coloured British subjects. As has been intimated, we begin the consideration of the first division of the subject with the Protectorates of Kano and Sokoto, or Northern Nigeria, of which they form a part. And by way of preface I present the following tabulation as the category in which Kano and Sokoto appear. Now, as well as in the past, war, or what is more mildly or evasively called " punitive expedition," is the chief gate through which coloured peoples pass into the British Empire. And as indicating how frequently the passage is made by these peoples, I will append here a list?an imperfect list, however?of wars that have been waged against them from the middle of the last decade only: ? Chitral . . . 1895 Ashanti . . . 1895-6 Sudan . . . 1896-9 Ashanti . . . 1900 Matabeleland . . 1896 Mashonaland . . 1897 North West Frontier of India . . . 1897-8 In 1901 there were also the following " punitive expeditions ": Northern Nigeria, the Kontagora and Bida expeditions, the Fawari and the Yola expeditions. In Southern Nigeria in that year there was an expeditio...