Brussels Conference Brussels Conference Brussels Conference Brussels Conference During the 1889–1890 Brussels Conference, the first comprehensive agreement to stop the African slave trade was signed. Although the Atlantic slave trade had stopped by this point, slave raids and…

Freetown History Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, has a population of 2.5 million people (2002 estimate), up from approximately 1 million a decade ago as a result of huge immigration to the city during the country’s civil conflict. This…

African Exploration Of Europeans African Exploration African Exploration African Exploration: Between roughly 1770 and 1880, Africa was explored, allowing for precise maps and publishable knowledge on the continent. Although Portuguese navigators had surveyed the beaches by 1500, the…

Pan Africanism Pan Africanism Pan Africanism: Kwame Nkrumah, who was prime minister of Ghana when that country got its independence on March 6, 1957, said that the Gold Coast’s independence didn’t mean anything unless it was linked to…

The Anti-Slavery Movement Anti-Slavery Movement Evangelical Christianity in Britain and Enlightenment ideas on the continent served as inspiration for anti-slavery movements in Western Europe. John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, wrote Thoughts on Slavery in 1744, one…