ABSTRACT
Colonialism was oppression, of the mind no less than the body. The evils of colonialism are grave, and plainly evident in nineteenth-century history – of that there can be no doubt. The German treatment of the Herero and other native populations of South-West Africa exemplifies European colonialism in its starkest form. No, colonialism is by no means a modern European innovation. Both imperialism and colonialism are forms of political and economic control over a weaker by a stronger partner. The German and British case studies show clearly that a principal aim of colonialism is the expansion of the power and control of the colonizer. The Jamaican rebellion offers the most complex example of this dimension of colonialism. The era of colonialism as a means of European expansion and domination drew to an end in the 1950s and 1960s. The evil that colonialism did does indeed live after it, most notably in the continuing struggles to achieve stable.
