1843-1889 History of Central Africa Gabon
1910-1918





Gabon, 1889-1910



In 1889, the Gabon Protectorate was integrated into the Protectorate of French Congo with it's capital at Brazzaville. Gabon's Libreville developed into the French Congo's main port. The landlocked French protectorate of Oubangi-Chari-Chad depended also on imports through the port of Libreville.
The main commercial products of the Gabon were rubber and ivory, rubber 'collected' from the indigenous inhabitants in form of a rubber tax.
In 1904, Gabon was separated from the French Congo and declared a protectorate of it's own, the reason being that Gabon was not, French Congo proper was included in the CONGO FREE TRADE AREA established by the CONGO ACT of 1885. Scandals regarding the maltreatment of the indigenous population in the Belgian Congo (enforced rubber tax) had caused international concern, which also affected the French Congo.
In 1910, French Congo, Gabon, Chad and Oubangi-Chari were joined to form FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA, capital Brazzaville.






EXTERNAL
FILES 		Pierre Paul Francois Camille Savorgnan de Brazza, from Infoplease
Gabon, History of, from Infoplease
Libreville, from Infoplease
Article Gaboon, from Catholic Encyclopedia 1917 edition
DOCUMENTS Map of Africa 1890, from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Am. edition, 1890, from Perry Castaneda Library, Utexas
Map of Africa 1892, from Gardiner's Atlas of English History
Map of Central Africa 1895 from Annales de Geographie IV, from Perry Castaneda Library, UTexas, has borders between Congo and Kamerun
REFERENCE David E. Gardinier, Historical Dictionary of Gabon, Metuchen N.J. : Scarecrow 1981 [G]
Article French Congo and Gabun, in : Statesman's Year Book 1895 p.515, 1898 p.514 [G]
Article French Congo and Gaboon, in : International Year Book 1898 pp.335-336, 1899 pp.348-349, French Congo, p.368 [G]



This page is part of World History at KMLA
First posted in 2001, last revised on August 30th 2007

Click here to go Home
Click here to go to Information about KMLA, WHKMLA, the author and webmaster
Click here to go to Statistics