Category : International

In August 1823, the British colony of Demerara-Essequibo, now part of modern Guyana, became the stage for one of the largest slave rebellions in the...

The Baptist War, also known as the Christmas Rebellion, was a pivotal event in the history of Jamaica and the broader British Caribbean. This eleven-day...

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” was a specific type of contract or license that held exclusive rights to trade and transport African slaves to the Spanish...

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...

CARIBBEAN CONNECTIONS AND SLAVERY Ninian Home (1732-1795) was a cousin of Patrick Home, who built Paxton House. As a junior member of the family, Ninian...

Thanks to the 1619 Project, it is widely believed the first enslaved Africans arrived in North America, at the British colony of Jamestown that year....