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Long ignored or misunderstood, African matrilineal societies are today wrongly accused of having weakened the continent in the face of colonization. By tracing the...

January 1811. In the winter humidity along the banks of the Mississippi, a column of several hundred armed men in rags advances toward New...

Created in 1803 in the wake of the colonial wars, the Battalion of Black Pioneers was a military unit composed of Antillean, Haitian, and...

Three days of hearings, four statues, eleven defendants: from November 5 to 7, 2025, Fort-de-France replayed its colonial history in a courtroom. The déchoukaj...

Colonial history is not just a succession of European dominations. Black peoples responded with memorable revolts and reprisals. From the Marlborough mutiny to the...

September 10, 1793, northern Saint-Domingue. Toussaint Louverture, still allied with Spain, attacks the camp of La Tannerie held by the Black officer Bramant Lazzary,...

August 1831, Virginia: a Black preacher named Nat Turner leads the bloodiest slave insurrection in American history. Two months later, he is publicly hanged,...

Captured at thirteen on the coasts of Senegal, Anta Madjiguène Ndiaye, daughter of a Wolof chief, was deported to Cuba and then to Florida....

On October 17, 1806, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, father of Haitian independence, was assassinated at Pont-Rouge. Behind this regicide: a collapsed empire, a betrayed revolution, a...

Vincent Ogé, often relegated to the margins of the Haitian Revolution, was nevertheless one of the first to challenge the colonial racial order. A...