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Britain outlawed the slave trade (some slaves were freed)
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Eurpeans controlled about 10 % of Aricans land
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Henery Stanley singed treaties with local chiefs of Congo River Valley To King Leopold II
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The Berlin Conference gave Britain a protectorate in lands amoung the Nigeria River
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Discoveries of diamonds in 1887 and gold in South Africa
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Menelik II became emperor of Ethiopia
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Only Liberia and Ethiopia remained free from Eueropean control