The European African intellectuals in the 1920s described colonial rule as cruel and robbed the African people from their dignity.
The Colonization process is not much different by slavery. The colony was formed to extract as much resource as possible from the colonized country and the ruler have the right to buy that resource with a low price
During the Taiping Rebellion, the peasants rebelled. It was mostly a civil war which killed scores of people (twenty million people approximately). The movement was a millenarian movement (meaning it occurred because of religious ideology). The movement was led by Hong Xiuquan who claimed he was Jesus' younger brother.
He pronounce it very good