The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project’s dependence on the labor of Black migrant women....

A new interpretation of captivity, human trafficking, and colonization in the seventeenth-century CaribbeanA century before the height of the Atlantic slave trade, early modern racialized slavery emerged...

Making and consuming rum created a new means of profit that transformed the Atlantic worldIt was strong. It was cheap. It was ubiquitous. Fermented and distilled from the refuse of sugar production,...

One of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish CaribbeanCaptives of Conquest is one of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish...

An in-depth analysis of literary and cultural productions from Haiti and the Dominican Republic and their diasporasSpirals in the Caribbean responds to key questions elicited by the human rights crisis...

In The Creole Archipelago, Tessa Murphy traces how generations of Indigenous Kalinagos, free and enslaved Africans, and settlers from a variety of European nations used maritime routes to forge social,...

In the decades following England’s 1655 conquest of Spanish Jamaica, the western Caribbean became the site of overlapping and competing claims—to land, maritime spaces, and people. English Jamaica,...