A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Race Deconstructed newsletter. To get it in your inbox every week, sign up for free here. Since the death of Queen Elizabeth II last week, Kris Manjapra has ...

Britain must pay reparations to former Caribbean colonies subjected to "400 years of the most hideous abuse" or it will be guilty of "collusion" with slavery, MPs have been told. Labour's Clive Lewis ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday rejected the Caribbean's push for slavery reparations during his first official visit to Jamaica, a once-profitable British colony ...

George Washington, who seems to have stayed in practically every inn in Colonial America, also slept here. That`s hardly a unique claim to fame, but then Barbados is the only place outside the United ...

The first European country to claim control over Caribbean territory was Spain in the 1400s. By the 1650s England had taken control of several islands in the Caribbean, including Jamaica and Barbados.