History

On May 8, 1902, Mount Pelée obliterated Saint-Pierre in seconds, claiming 30,000 lives in a torrent of fire and ash. Behind this tragedy lies...

In 1944, France removed its African soldiers from the front lines, erasing their role in the Liberation. Discover the story behind the “whitening” of...

In 1802, under the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte, hundreds of Guadeloupeans and Haitians were torn from their homeland and forcibly sent to Corsica. Their...

Born in the fire of Saint-Domingue and executed by guillotine during the height of the Terror, Louis Guizot became France’s first Black mayor in...

Jean-Jacques Alain, also spelled Alin, was born in 1777 in Le Lamentin, Martinique. Following the French Revolution, he migrated to Senegal, where he would...

First Guadeloupean to enter Polytechnique, an unsung hero of World War I, Camille Mortenol embodies the colonial paradox: loyalty without recognition, excellence without legacy. A...

Carlota Lucumí, an enslaved woman of Yoruba origin, led one of the most powerful anti-slavery uprisings in Cuban history in 1843. From Matanzas to...

They defied the impossible. From Henry “Box” Brown’s postal escape to Eliza Harris’s icy river crossing, these enslaved people orchestrated escapes as brilliant as...

On April 15, 1848, seventy-seven African American slaves boarded the Pearl, a schooner meant to carry them to freedom. This escape— the largest ever...