Biography: Randy M. Browne is an award-winning historian of Atlantic slavery who specializes in the British Caribbean. He is the author of The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic ...
These include consultant to the United Nations Development Report on Latin America and the Caribbean and vice president and historian for UNESCO’s Slave Routes Project. He has also addressed the ...
High on a hill in southwest Martinique are 20 white stone effigies, silently facing Diamond Beach and the Caribbean Sea. They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly ...
Lloyd’s Register has apologised for its role in the transatlantic slave trade, which saw British ships forcibly take 3.4m Africans to work in Caribbean plantations. The UK-based classification ...
Mario Tama / Getty Images Slavery reparations are restitution payments for slavery remitted to the descendants of enslaved people. In theory, American slavery reparations would be paid by entities ...
By SETONJI DAVID The world set aside January 27 every year as International Holocaust Remembrance Day to remember one of the worst human tragedies of all times. The holocaust was a systematic genocide ...
slaves merged African traditions and folklore with colonial rituals to create their own fete. ST. CROIXCarnival in St. Croix is celebrated as it is in much of the British-colonized Caribbean, with ...