Europeans felt that they were helping them, but Africans got the opposite feeling. In the short excerpt that we are given, Morel says, “the white man has massacred the African in heaps. The African has survived, and it is well for the white settlers that he has…” This shows that white people have been taking advantage of them, murdering their kind, and using them to gain their fortune. In another document that is given to us, Baba, a Hausa woman of Nigeria wrote, “they would stop oppression and lawlessness, we would live at peace with them...everyone at Karo ran away-- `There’s a European, there’s a European!” In this specific excerpt we are given an intimate glimpse into the British Arrival. Africans were being fed tiny spoonful of lies, but they still ran for their lives in hopes of finding their own freedom. Also, in a personal account by Ndansi Kumalo, he writes, “ We surrender to the white people and were told to go back to our hoes and live our usual lives.” He also goes on to say, “we thought we had a good chance to kill them...many of our people were killed in that fight.” Africans were living in fear, in danger, and were threatened by foreigners in their country, their
Europeans felt that they were helping them, but Africans got the opposite feeling. In the short excerpt that we are given, Morel says, “the white man has massacred the African in heaps. The African has survived, and it is well for the white settlers that he has…” This shows that white people have been taking advantage of them, murdering their kind, and using them to gain their fortune. In another document that is given to us, Baba, a Hausa woman of Nigeria wrote, “they would stop oppression and lawlessness, we would live at peace with them...everyone at Karo ran away-- `There’s a European, there’s a European!” In this specific excerpt we are given an intimate glimpse into the British Arrival. Africans were being fed tiny spoonful of lies, but they still ran for their lives in hopes of finding their own freedom. Also, in a personal account by Ndansi Kumalo, he writes, “ We surrender to the white people and were told to go back to our hoes and live our usual lives.” He also goes on to say, “we thought we had a good chance to kill them...many of our people were killed in that fight.” Africans were living in fear, in danger, and were threatened by foreigners in their country, their