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Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 4B



41. Carl Peters, “Prospects of Africa’s Settlement by Whites,” Forum (October 1893): 150-55.


Prediction that white colonists will be able to settle and prosper in Africa, despite the continent’s reputation as “a sort of immense Dismal Swamp.” The author believes that “the magic process which will open the Dark Continent to civilization is the organization of native labor with white intelligence.”