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In Africa [13] the Cape of Good Hope was the chief colony, occupying an important commercial and strategic position as a post of call on the way to India. At the Cape there was a double racial problem—friction between the Dutch and the English, and conflict between white and black, complicated by native slavery. [14]

Of the other African colonies, Mauritius was a sugar colony taken from France, Cape Coast Castle a trading station, governed by merchants, under the control of the Home Government [15] and Sierra Leone, a philanthropic but unsuccessful attempt at colonization by free African labour. [16]