POLS 2940 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Statism, Neocolonialism, Andre Gunder Frank
27 Feb 2017
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Colonialism therefore implies some degree of foreign command and political control, whether or not settlers are present. Two significant aspects of old colonialism were slavery in africa and the establishment of a global trading network controlled by european powers and their various agents. The official worldwide demise of both of these aspects is signalled rhetorically by two key concepts: Conditions today in west africa suggest that today"s world is not post colonial in any meaningful sense. Considering slavery first, the british parliament"s ratification of the act for the abolition of the slave trade in march 1807 marked the beginning of the end of the transatlantic trade in slaves from africa to british colonies. The slavery abolition act of may 1833 brought an immediately end to the legal principle of property in man but it did not immediately end slave labour.
