Africa
“A Single Black Woman”: African Women and the Portuguese Slave Trade in Sixteenth-Century West Africa
Teaching how African women influenced the slave trade in seventeenth-century West Africa
“Everything is Found in Zanzibar”: East Africa, Zanzibar, and World History in the Nineteenth Century
Discussion of teaching nineteenth-century East Africa and Zanzibar
“At Variance with the Europeans”: East Africa, 1400 - c.1750
Discussion of teaching early modern East Africa
“Under God’s Guidance to the Lands of the Swahili Coast”: East Africa Before 1500
Discussion of teaching East African history before 1500
“A Mixed Population of Muslims and Zanj”: Teaching East Africa in World History, c.1000 to Present
Discussion of teaching East Africa Africa in World History
“We the Women Will Fight”: Africa in the Forty Years’ War
Discussion of teaching Africa in the world wars
“Longing for their Homes”: The Middle Passage and the Development of Modern Migration, 1700 to 1830
Discussion of teaching the Middle Passage as the start of modern migration
“Their Liberty Will Form a Parallel to the History of Europe”: Teaching West Africa in the Age of Revolutions
Discussion of teaching West Africa as part of the Age of the Revolutions
“I Saved My People”: State Building in Africa, 1200 - 1450
Discussion of teaching African state-building between 1200 and 1450
“They Forge Their Own Iron Work”: The Transatlantic Slave System, African Iron Working, the Industrial Revolution, and Reflecting on Our Work
Discussion of teaching the African influences on the Industrial Revolution
