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Afro-Latino History

“Die, yes; surrender, no.” In November 1838, an estimated 200–400 African and Brazilian-born people left the coffee estates...

On 5 November 1975, Cuba launched Operation Carlota, a military mission to defend Angola’s independence and shift the...

The Cuban Revolution was to the Caribbean of the twentieth century what the Haitian Revolution was to the nineteenth: a rupture that reshaped the region’s political imagination and reverberated throughout the...

Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was Brazil’s largest and most enduring freedom polity and one of the most...

In the early hours of January 25, 1835, hundreds of African men entered the streets of Salvador, the...