Category : International

Blackbirding, the 19th- and early 20th-century practice of enslaving (often by force and deception) South Pacific Islanders on the cotton and sugar plantations of Queensland, Australia (as well...

The very evocative imagery employed on this medal, with it’s a crude caricature of the French colonial soldier and it’s allusion to rape and sexual...

On February 5th, the Kaplan Institute had the pleasure of welcoming distinguished art history scholars Todd Porterfield (Université de Montréal) and Deborah Silverman (UCLA) to...

The Arawak people are an indigenous group that historically inhabited the Caribbean islands, as well as parts of South America. They are known for their...

The Caribs, also known as the Kalinago, are an indigenous people of the Caribbean. They are believed to have originally migrated from the Orinoco River...

The Taíno people were a pre-Columbian indigenous group who inhabited the Caribbean islands, including present-day Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico,...

The British Empire was the most extensive empire in world history. It was a product of the European Age of Discovery in the late 15th...

Born and raised in Halifax, Viola Desmond trained as a teacher but soon joined her husband Jack Desmond in a combined barbershop and hairdressing salon,...

Samuel Sharpe was an enslaved person who fought for freedom by organizing a general strike in Jamaica. He was born in Jamaica in 1801 and brought...