Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known. Born in South Asia during the ...

A fall epidemic had disrupted the colonial government ... raising hopes that the Spanish in St. Augustine would give a positive reception to slaves escaping from Carolina plantations.

Opening a symposium on Robin Blackburn’s The Reckoning, a probing examination of political agents and structuring conditions behind the late overthrow of slavery in the American South, Cuba and Brazil ...