A manuscript history of Grenada records Jacques Dyel du Parquet’s purchase of the island in Paris on 27 September 1650. French settlement and plantation expansion later relied on enslaved African...
Enslaved people in northern Saint-Domingue launch a mass uprising against slavery and French colonial rule. The revolution made emancipation and Black sovereignty central political questions across...
News of the French emancipation decree triggered revolt in Martinique. The uprising helped force local authorities to proclaim emancipation before the decree’s scheduled implementation. Enslaved...
