Negative Effects Of African Americans

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Europeans were trying to take africa for themselves
They treated the african people like they treated the new world he native
Europeans thought they were better than the african
-Americans so they forced them to do there labor.
African americans wages were even lower than
European womens.
In 1884 - 1885, The Berlin Conference were held by European countries to give these countries the land “with the aid of diplomacy or by weapons. The conference had positive as well as negative effects.”
A negative effect of this was 90% of African Content was now controlled by Europeans.
Another negative effect was the European people who came to certain parts of Africa exploited the minerals there.
When the British came into Africa, they “were the

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