by Strong Americas | Aug 10, 2026
Unlike many nations, Canada’s separation from British rule unfolded gradually and largely peacefully rather than through armed revolution. Confederation in 1867 united the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into the Dominion of Canada,...
by Strong Americas | Aug 9, 2026
Brazil’s path to independence began with the Portuguese royal family’s flight to Rio de Janeiro in 1808 to escape Napoleon’s invasion of Portugal, which made Brazil the seat of the empire for over a decade. When King John VI returned to Lisbon in...
by Strong Americas | Aug 9, 2026
Bolivia’s independence movement grew out of more than a decade of upheaval in Upper Peru, the colonial territory that would become the modern nation. Local uprisings against Spanish rule broke out as early as 1809 in cities such as La Paz and Chuquisaca, though...
by Strong Americas | Aug 9, 2026
For much of the twentieth century, the territory then known as British Honduras remained a Crown Colony administered from London, with limited local political power. That began to change after 1954, when a new constitution introduced universal adult suffrage and...
by Strong Americas | Aug 9, 2026
Calls for political change in Barbados grew out of the labor unrest of the 1930s, when descendants of enslaved plantation workers pressed for relief from poverty and for voting rights then restricted by income and property requirements. Grantley Adams helped found the...
