Caribbean slavery

The 39 Lashes Rule: How Slaveholders Punished Enslaved Africans Using Biblical Law

In slaveholding societies across the Americas, religion shaped daily life and plantation authority. Slaveholders attended church and often claimed their power over enslaved Africans was ordained by God. Within this environment, the Bible was used not only as a...

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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King Koko of Nembe: The African King Who Renounced Christianity and Took Up Arms Against the British

In January 1895, King Koko of Nembe launched one of the most daring attacks against British interests in nineteenth...