Caribbean slavery

Alexandre Lindo: The Most Notorious Jamaican Jewish Slave Trader of the 18th Century

The transatlantic slave trade is rife with figures who, through their actions, defined the brutal systems of commerce that sustained the colonial economies of the Caribbean. Among them, Alexandre Lindo, a Jewish Jamaican slave trader and ship captain, stands...
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Remembering the 1811 German Coast Uprising, the Largest Slave Rebellion in U.S. History

On January 8, 1811, along the sugar plantations of Louisiana’s German Coast, enslaved Africans rose up in one of...