The British Empire focused, not in exploiting colonies, but in improving them and abolishing slavery. This new ideal was being promoted by David Livingstone who was a very important doctor and explorer.
The clapham sect was a group of christian people who made it their labor to abolish slavery and finally got the government to abolish it.
Britain started to look forward to establishing new colonies in Africa because of the natural resources and because of the land, but mainly because of the slave trade which seemed like a really good idea until slavery was abolished.
African culture was very weird to the british and they didn't like it at all, which made the two cultures dislike each other.
This did not happen with India; the British accepted their ideals and their culture even though they also thought it was pretty weird, they saw them as civilized people with different customs but they did change some of their traditions.
In time, David Livingstone decided to explore the the interior of Africa and discovered that slavery hadn't been completely eliminated and was very shocked.
Some british believed that they shouldn't try to change Indians' religion because it would affect the economy, but the Clapham Sect demanded that the government let them send missionaries to India, which was eventually allowed and cause discrepancies between the two countries.
The missionaries were extremely annoyed by some indian practices like the suttee and the female infanticide so he british sent more troops to India to control this situation and they said that the path was marked by indian soldiers hanging on trees.
David Livingstone disappeared but was found by Henry Morton Stanley in an African village.
The year in which David died was the day that slavery was completely abolished in the east.
Christianity remained as a major religion and the Indians kept their own.
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