BRITAIN · PEOPLE · MEMORY
1987—2027
40 years of Black History Month in the UK
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Jamaica’s Maroons built communities beyond plantation control. Their history brings together Nanny’s leadership, mountain knowledge, difficult treaties, forced Atlantic journeys and cultural traditions that remain part…
The uprising of 1816 brought enslaved Barbadians into open conflict with plantation power. Bussa, Nanny Grigg and other organisers belong to a longer struggle whose history…
From the defence of land on St Vincent to communities along the Central American coast, Garifuna history brings together African and Indigenous Caribbean roots, forced exile,…
Created through decades of experimentation in Trinidad, the steelpan connects African Caribbean musical traditions with metalworking, Carnival, women’s participation, education and the work of musicians who…
Taíno communities shaped Caribbean agriculture, travel, art and knowledge long before European invasion. Their histories reveal both the violence of colonisation and the continuing lives, inherited…
Citadelle Laferrière embodies Haiti’s determination to defend the freedom won through revolution. Its engineering, the rule of Henri Christophe and the labour behind its walls reveal…