The White Man's Burden: Colonialism

In The White Mans’s Burden and The Black Man’s Burden the setting is not clearly stated. The White Mans’s Burden was written during the time period of colonialism and imperialism. The Black Man’s Burden wasn’t written at the heat of colonialism it was written towards the end and its goal was the rebuttal The White Mans’s Burden argument. Rudyard Kipling wrote The White Mans’s Burden and he was a British poet. In Kipling’s poem he sought to provide a justification for imperialism and colonialism. He tried to help people understand that colonizers had the “moral responsibility” (Duiker,30) to bring the ignorant up to speed on civilization because they are “half deviled-half child.” (Kipling, 30) Edmund Morel wrote the book The Black Man’s