VIDEO LESSON | The Strike That Broke Zanzibar’s Trade
Explore how food sovereignty, African resistance, and the abolition of slavery toppled the Zanzibar clove trade under British Empire history and colonialism in Africa.
Explore how food sovereignty, African resistance, and the abolition of slavery toppled the Zanzibar clove trade under British Empire history and colonialism in Africa.
Explore how A Philip Randolph, Milton Webster, Ashley Totten, and Pullman Porters transformed Black labor history, the Pullman Company, and the civil rights movement.
In the late 19th century Niger Delta, King Jaja of Opobo brought the British Empire to a standstill using the mechanics of international capitalism.
White Northern philanthropists poured capital into Southern Black education to train subservient manual and domestic labor. Black women educators turned that demand into a Trojan horse.
See how Europe used predatory debt and cultural erasure to conquer North Africa, sparking the 1882 Egyptian revolution and the Scramble for Africa.
Discover how King Moshoeshoe I used mountain fortress geography at Thaba Bosiu to defeat British imperial forces and establish the nation of Lesotho.