AP World Unit 4
“A Huge Contingent of Armed Africans”: Revisiting Enslaved African Resistance
Discussion of teaching the Malê Revolt
“The Horrors of the Cruel System of Slavery”: Revisiting the Transatlantic Slave System
Discussion of teaching Brazil and the transatlantic slave system
“At Variance with the Europeans”: East Africa, 1400 - c.1750
Discussion of teaching early modern East Africa
“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
“Freedom of Trade in Opium”: Teaching Opium Production and Trade in the Late Nineteenth Century
Discussion of late nineteenth-century opium economy in Anatolia, Persia, and Southeast Asia
“They All Must Have Opium”: The Diversity of the British Opium Trade
Discussion of Teaching Indian Opium Production
“Opium Was One of Those Things”: Rethinking How We Teach the Nineteenth-Century Opium Trade
Discussion of teaching the nineteenth-century opium trade
“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
The Trans-Pacific Trade and the Problem with World History
Discussion of how we teach trans-Pacific trade in world history
“One of the Most Important Ports of the South Sea”: Acapulco as the Unlikely Entrepôt
Discussion of how to teach the marginalized communities of Acapulco involved in the global silver trade
