Active resistance – such as running away, organising rebellions. On Caribbean islands the population of black enslaved people was usually much larger than the white European population.

“This is a rebellion that is a cultural resistance ... curator of Latin American and Caribbean Collections at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In 1791, revolt broke out in the French Caribbean colony of St. Domingue, which was located on the western third of the island of Hispaniola (the eastern two-thirds was owned by Spain and called ...

The celebration of independence is a reminder of the first country to lead a successful slave rebellion the first sovereign state in the Caribbean, the first black republic in the Western ...

Paris is to put up a statue of a black woman involved in a 1802 rebellion against slavery on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. The woman, named only Solitude, was captured and possibly ...