The Haitian Revolution begins

After defeating French forces, Haiti declares independence and becomes the first independent Black republic. The state challenged the racial order of Atlantic slavery and inspired both hope among...

Thousands of enslaved people in the British colony of Demerara rise against plantation slavery. Their organized action, shaped by local networks and plans, was met with military repression; it also...

A large strike and uprising by enslaved people begins in western Jamaica. Sam Sharpe and other organizers used church, communication and community networks to demand freedom; colonial forces crushed...

Protesters led by Paul Bogle march to the Morant Bay courthouse amid land dispossession, poverty and political exclusion under colonial rule. The repression that followed, including executions and...

Ethiopian forces defeat an Italian invasion at Adwa, preserving Ethiopia’s sovereignty in the face of European imperial expansion. Adwa became a powerful symbol for African and diaspora anticolonial...