Category: Caribbean History
Explore the Daily Alphas archive of overlooked people, resistance, achievement and hidden history.
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CUFFY: THE ENSLAVED AFRICAN WHO NEARLY TOOK A COLONY
In 1763, an enslaved African named Cuffy helped lead one of the largest slave rebellions in the Americas. In Dutch-controlled Berbice, thousands…
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QUEEN NANNY: THE WOMAN THE BRITISH COULD NOT DEFEAT
By Jamahl Hokstam In the mountains of Jamaica, there was once a woman who built a community the British Empire could not…
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Toussaint Louverture: The Liberator of the Caribbean Islands
Toussaint Louverture was a towering figure of the late 18th and early 19th centuries—a Haitian revolutionary, military strategist, and statesman whose leadership…
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Chief Saturiwa: Leadership in 16th-Century Florida
Chief Saturiwa stands as one of the most influential Indigenous leaders of 16th-century Florida. As the paramount chief of the Saturiwa people—a…
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Patrice Lumumba: The Rise, Struggle, and Silencing of an African Icon
Few figures embody the hope, turmoil, and betrayal of Africa’s struggle for independence more powerfully than Patrice Emery Lumumba, the first democratically…