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Oct 4 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Just a reminder of what the British found when they got to Africa:
Pax Britannica.
Early African anti-vaxxers (1955)
Would direct British rule have been better? I'm not so sure, but apparently there's an argument to be made:
'Internalised Slavery' in Africa because it had been an institution that went on so long. I find this absurdly tragic:
Pax Britannica reducing violence. Seems like another Imperial positive to me:
And thus it came to an end:
Here's the full letter, written by David E. Reed to Mr. Walter S. Rogers of the Institute of Current World Affairs in 1955.

icwa.org/wp-content/upl…
More letters here:
All letters here:
icwa.org/david-e-reed-n…

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People often bring this up because the concentration camps and the scorched earth policy was undoubtedly barbaric. That's not what made them interesting in the British context though.
Scorched earth was a tactic as old as warfare itself, we can trace it as far back as the Scythians (around 550 BC).
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