The Black Man's Burden (1920), By E. D.(Edward Dene) Morel: The Black Man's Burden: The White Man in Africa from the Fifteenth Century to World War I

The Black Man's Burden: The White Man in Africa from the Fifteenth Century to World War I (1920) Chapter I. The White Man's Burden The bard of a modern Imperialism has sung of the White Man's burden. The notes strike the granite surface of racial pride and fling back echoes which reverberate through the corridors of history, exultant, stirring the blood with memories of heroic adventure, deeds of desperate daring, ploughing of unknown seas, vistas of mysterious continents, perils affronted ...