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"[Africans] are not the possessors of an old civilization and ancient laws, under which they have learned to manage their own affairs; they are in no degree in the position of the Hindoo and Mahomedan races in India. They are mere barbarians, with some ill-defined customs which we have reduced to law.… African tribes seem to be mere casual aggregations of people under the chief of the day. … I should judge, then, that there is little of native law or rule which we are much called on to respect when these people come under our jurisdiction."
George Campbell (civil servant)
