Curriculum/Unit 5.5: Capital Built From Extraction: How Slavery and Colonialism Financed European Capitalism
Unit 5.5
Grades 9-10
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From Slave Ships to Rubber Vines: One Continuous Extractive Logic
This unit closes by tracing a direct structural continuity between the slave-trade-era capital examined in this unit's first two lessons and a different, later form of European wealth extraction from Africa: colonial resource extraction, examined in specific, harrowing detail in…
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