1888 AD–1895 AD
Chartered companies turn treaties into African rule
British Empire · Colonization & sovereignty · Companies, trade & extraction · Slavery & coerced labor · Law & imperial government
Charters for the Imperial British East Africa Company and British South Africa Company delegated treaty-making, policing, extraction, and administration to private firms. Their agents obtained concessions of disputed meaning, and the government proclaimed protectorates when company rule proved costly or unstable
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