The Industrial revolution led to the making of business and the economic system known as Capitalism. Capitalism is when business controls everything; they could create monopolies and do whatever they want without the concern of the government or the people. So all this business started to want to control places with good natural resources. So Africa was the perfect place because they had a lot of diamonds. Which they could use to sell to other places or sell them at higher prices at their own country. An example of this could be seen with the DeBeers brothers when they created monopolies, so people had to go and buy from them, because it was the only place that had what they wanted. So if you really need it, you are going to have to buy it at what ever price they sell it to you. Also they will make them your slaves so you could get the diamonds for them. So they will create monopolies on you, and is from your own work that they are charging you.
So as you could see in this picture, all the africans are working to find diamonds. Which was one of the major reasons why so many countries wanted to imperialise africa. You could see that kids also work here on the diamonds mine. So you could infer that many of this kids will get injure or die at a young age from all the work.
By: Johnny Rodriguez
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