SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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French 1902 & 1910
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British 1865 & 1905
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No one
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German 1865 & 1878
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Detailed explanation-1: -During its brief military occupation during World War II, Italy never established colonial control over Ethiopia. Despite being founded by the United States in 1821 as a place to send its free Black residents, Liberia was never colonized after gaining its full independence in 1847.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ultimately, of all the countries in the world, only one consistently appears on every list of countries that have never been colonized: Japan.
Detailed explanation-3: -Battle of Adowa (Ethiopia) As you have already learned, Ethiopia along with Liberia, were the only African countries that were not colonized by Europeans.
Detailed explanation-4: -Then there is Liberia, which European powers spared because the United States backed the Liberian state, which was established in the early 1800s by freed American slaves who had decided to move to Africa.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ethiopia is Africa’s oldest independent country and its second largest in terms of population. Apart from a five-year occupation by Mussolini’s Italy, it has never been colonised.