Xhosa and Zulu resistance in southern Africa defined the nineteenth-century anti-colonial struggle

Evidence

It becomes clear, then, that for the period between the mid-sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, it was an African tradition that grounded collective resistance by Blacks to slavery and colonial imperialism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 833 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Zulu resistance to white farm labor drove British importation of Indian indentured workers.; An African tradition grounded Black resistance from 1550 to 1850 — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 833; African anti-colonial resistance slowly integrated discrete societies into cohesive movements (+3 more)

Related

• African resistance movements slowly built the cross-ethnic integration the slave trade had achieved instantly (similarity 0.82)
• An African tradition grounded Black resistance from 1550 to 1850 (similarity 0.82)
• Zulu resistance to white farm labor drove British importation of Indian indentured workers. (similarity 0.81)
• An African tradition, not European political thought, grounded Black collective resistance for three centuries. (similarity 0.80)
• African political traditions, not just European ideas, shaped insurgent concepts of rule (similarity 0.79)
• Slaves’ West and Central African roots shaped New World resistance to slavery. (similarity 0.79)
• Slave resistance evolved into a battle to preserve collective African identity (similarity 0.79)
• Black struggles in the US function under domestic colonialism linked to worldwide anticolonialism (similarity 0.79)
• Imperialist expansion itself generated the coherence and dynamics of African resistance (similarity 0.78)
• Imperialism matured the very social forces that later resisted it (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Imperialism itself generated the resistance and revolution that opposed it #expands (0.50)
• African anti-colonial resistance slowly integrated discrete societies into cohesive movements #exemplifies (0.45)
• An African tradition grounded Black resistance from 1550 to 1850 #expands (0.40) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 833
• Black struggles in the US function under domestic colonialism linked to worldwide anticolonialism #expands (0.35)
• The First World War era sparked anti-colonial stirrings across Asia and Africa #qualifies (0.35)