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African-Caribbean History

In the final days of 1831, western Jamaica erupted into the largest uprising of captive people (Xaymacans) in...

The Cuban Revolution was to the Caribbean of the twentieth century what the Haitian Revolution was to the...

On August 17, 1795, the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao witnessed one of the most significant and far-reaching uprisings in its history, now remembered as Tula’s Revolt. Tula, a visionary leader,...

“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is...

“Ayiti has been blessed to be a country where we have created all the essentials of the identity...

On 14 April 1816, the largest Maafa uprising in Barbados’s history broke out. Now known as Bussa’s Rebellion, the Rising lasted for over two days before being suppressed by British military...

“Revolution moves in a mysterious way, its wonders to perform.” –C.L.R. James “It was the first time in...

Louis Delgrès was an African-Caribbean freedom fighter who led the 1802 resistance in Guadeloupe against Napoleon Bonaparte’s attempt...