Punch’s depiction of the Uganda Railway, from Lake Victoria to Mombasa. This from 1893 (preceding the railway’s establishment by two years) in the same year that Henry Stanley called for a railway to end African slavery @PunchCartoons
Punch’s depiction of the Uganda Railway, from Lake Victoria to Mombasa. This from 1893 (preceding the railway’s establishment by two years) in the same year that Henry Stanley called for a railway to end African slavery @PunchCartoons
Punch’s depiction of the Uganda Railway, from Lake Victoria to Mombasa. This from 1893 (preceding the railway’s establishment by two years) in the same year that Henry Stanley called for a railway to end African slavery @PunchCartoons
By chance, I’d been writing about the role of slave porterage in sustaining the ivory/piano trade - which this railway largely undermined by providing mechanical transportation of elephant tusks!
By chance, I’d been writing about the role of slave porterage in sustaining the ivory/piano trade - which this railway largely undermined by providing mechanical transportation of elephant tusks!
By chance, I’d been writing about the role of slave porterage in sustaining the ivory/piano trade - which this railway largely undermined by providing mechanical transportation of elephant tusks!
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