HOW BRITAIN MADE THE MODERN WORLD

The Clapham Sect

Was a group of people who wanted to spread Christianity to India. They weren’t well received and even was the cause of the beginning of a rebellion. The Clapham Sect claimed to have a plan to modernize the world.

David Lingstone:

British missionary and doctor who began exploring the interior of Africa to introduce them to Christianity, as well as to free them from slavery. David wanted to get to the heart of Africa itself. Also Lingstone´s purpose was to civilize Africa. Even though he failed because people´s reaction was not as good he returned to Britain as a Hero.

The differences between the British experiences in Africa and India:

In Africa was much easier the process of Christianization and civilization than in India. They were something really different. In India it was very difficult that they even launched a war to avoid being conquered by the British. Britain realized what they wanted with Africa but for nothing with India.

The Sepoy Mutiny:

Because Indians refused to be Christianize by Great Britain a war was led. They believed that the empire was a struggle between good and evil. Almost every British known for living there was killed. But not just Europeans died, there were lots of Indians dead too. Awful and disgusting ways of being punished were used.

Henry Morton Stanley:

Henry Morton was an ambitious American journalist. Instead of searching for the African soul like David Lingstone did, he just wanted to conquer them but by the same idea of Christianization. The idea of “Christianization, commerce and civilization” had another C added. Which meant conquer.