…Makandal’s marronage as a runaway slave, his underground network of poisoners on the island, and his eventual capture and execution. However, Augstin adds a familial aspect to this narrative, centering…

…MS 12405, ff. 335r-341v. Aljoe, Nicole and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon. The Early Caribbean Digital Archive. Northeastern University, 2017. Ecda.northeastern.edu. Beckford, William. A Descriptive Account of the Island. London: T. and…

…quickly read the requiremento aloud three times—the exact number needed in order to promote a just war—but did so far, far away from the skirmish so as to not be…

…growing number of similarly embedded slave narratives, extracted from texts written by European colonial authors, which we have remixed to form a new digital anthology of narratives that speak to…

…crown that the indigenous were suffering greatly at the hands of the Spanish. Thus, a council was formed and a number of laws governing Spanish action in the New World…

…islands, changing the culture and the religious aspects of the Caribbean people. Not only were people being punished for practicing Obeah, but there was also a new stress and pressure…

…had on the Caribbean. It can easily be adapted to work in a number of classrooms, including for community-based learning groups. Assignments Click the images to access Google Files of…

…look into the life of the plant as well as the enthusiasm it generated among the people on the islands and in Europe. Trained as a physician, Grainger first came…

…plantation operations and saving imperial wealth; Denis Diderot’s engravings of happy cultivators and tools for processing raw cotton and sugar featured numbered black bodies and machine parts as one harmonious…

…the footnote, Makandal prophesies and demonstrates the end of white rule on the island through a performance using vases of water and pieces of white cloth. It says:   The…