Dark Continent

noun

1. the Dark Continent
   a term for Africa when it was relatively unexplored

Example Sentences

Nothing but the Vicariate of the whole of the Dark Continent for this young man.

From Project Gutenberg

It is the "dark continent," both in the color of its inhabitants and in its sad destitution and degradation.

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In striking contrast with all this glory is the failure of every one of the missions on the Dark Continent of Africa.

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Most Africans are, even five generations removed from the slave-ship that brought their forefathers from the Dark Continent.

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The multiplied efforts of the European States to colonize the dark continent are facts full of encouragement.

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