The Journal of Caribbean History (JCH) is a peer reviewed journal produced by the Departments of History, The University of the West Indies, and published by the University of the West Indies Press. T...

Join the NWO Vidi project “That’s Women’s Work!” on the trans-imperial history of gendered labour: apply for one of two funded PhD positions

I decided early on in my PhD-trajectory that I wanted to go on a research trip to Cuba. The research I am able to do from the Netherlands mostly consists of reading primary sources written by white…

The Journal of Caribbean History (JCH) is a peer reviewed journal produced by the Departments of History, The University of the West Indies, and published by the University of the West Indies Press. T...

By Danas Kuzminas Enslaved women on the island of Barbados were subordinated and subjected to harsh conditions shaped by the regime of slavery. Gendered discourses meant that enslaved women had to …

By Danas Kuzminas As I worked through hundreds of fugitive advertisements printed in Barbados during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the research process proved increasingly challenging. A…

By Danas Kuzminas. As an intern, joining the research team for the Racialized Motherhood project, my main task is to examine two newspapers (the Barbados Mercury and The Barbadian) printed in Barba…

By Felicia J. Fricke. Between 1789 and 1830, the population structure of the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Eustatius changed markedly. At the beginning of this period, the island was populated by 4…

Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!

This article articulates the mortality gap between non-Caribbean (foreign) men and Caribbean (Creole) women on the Dutch island of St. Eustatius in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centurie...

Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi led the call to decriminalise the 1% of abortions that happen after 24 weeks.

Moira Donegan on the different groups of people who want the US population to produce more babies