All four of the colonies we learned about this semester have one issue in common; the way natives were treated, viewed and discriminated against was the same throughout all. In the United States, natives were treated poorly and viewed as “savages.” Next, in Australia, natives were mistreated, and the goal of the British was to change the culture of the natives. They began to lose parts of their culture because of the British. One event in South Africa was a big protest by black natives. Many of them were murdered, or sentenced to life in prision. Those native women caught were treated roughly.
A majority of them had to deal with the issue of slavery. All of the colonies besides Rwanda incorporated the use of natives as slaves into their labor. When the British came to South Africa, they did not allow natives to be used as slaves. Natives were also “pushed” off the land they originally settled upon. The colonies all separated the land so that natives and white Europeans weren’t living together in South Africa. They also lost their rights as people. They had to obey by laws like the Apartheid in South Africa. So as you can see, the way of life of a native was not always easy.
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