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The Scramble for the Pacific: Islands Divided
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…
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