Category : International

By the 1890s postcards were widely available throughout continental Europe. The postcards appealed to tourists looking for a souvenir of their travels abroad. Although travel...

The Demerara Rebellion of 1823 was an uprising involving more than ten thousand enslaved people in the Crown colony of Demerara-Essequibo (now part of Guyana)...

The Baptist War, also known as the Christmas Rebellion, was an eleven-day rebellion that mobilized as many as sixty thousand of Jamaica’s three hundred thousand...

By 1711, England’s burdensome debt of approximately £9 million threatened to damage the country’s credit standing and increase the cost of borrowing. Debt had been...

The Treaties of Utrecht, also called Peace of Utrecht, (April 1713–September 1714), a series of treaties between France and other European powers (April 11, 1713,...

The asiento de negros, between the early 16th and the mid-18th century, was an agreement between the Spanish crown and a private person or another...

In 1713, Queen Anne of England and King Philip V of Spain signed the Treaty of Utrecht formalizing the end of Great Britain’s involvement in...

Tens of millions of black Africans were forcibly removed from their homelands from the 16th century to the 19th century to toil on the plantations...

Few people realize that the percentage of people of African ancestry in the South American nation of Colombia (7%) is slightly more than half the...