The Scramble for the Pacific: Islands Divided
From The Rise of Colonialism: How Europe Divided the World — Fexingo History · 8:48
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In 1899, Germany, Britain, and the United States met in London to carve up the neutral islands of the western Pacific. This episode explores the Tripartite Convention that split Samoa between Berlin and Washington, while leaving the British Solomon Islands to London. We look at how local Samoan chiefs like Malietoa Laupepa were sidelined by foreign diplomats who treated their archipelago as a chessboard for global trade routes. The conversation also examines the brutal practice of blackbirding, where laborers from Vanuatu and Fiji were kidnapped to work on sugar plantations in Queensland and Hawaii. Through the stories of figures like Kaiser Wilhelm II and Queen Liliʻuokalani, we see how imperial ambition erased indigenous sovereignty and redrawd the map of Oceania forever. #TripartiteConvention #ScrambleForThePacific #SamoaHistory #Blackbirding #GermanNewGuinea #KaiserWilhelmII #Liliuokalani #MalietoaLaupepa #BritishSolomonIslands #USNavalStation #PagoPago #VanuatuLabor #QueenslandSugar #HawaiiAnnexation #PacificImperialism #ColonialBoundaries #FexingoHistory #History Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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