by Strong Americas | Aug 16, 2026
In the early twentieth century, British Honduras remained a small colonial economy built around mahogany extraction and other forestry exports, with political power concentrated in an appointed legislative council and little say afforded to the broader population. The...
by Strong Americas | Aug 15, 2026
Barbados entered the twentieth century as a British colony with a plantation economy still dominated by a small white landowning class, despite a Black majority population. Labour unrest swept the British West Indies in 1937, and Barbados was no exception; the...
by Strong Americas | Aug 15, 2026
The Bahamas entered the twentieth century as a British Crown Colony governed by a small, largely white merchant elite based in Nassau, often referred to as the “Bay Street Boys.” The islands’ economy, historically dependent on sponging, agriculture,...
by Strong Americas | Aug 15, 2026
Venezuelan resistance to Spanish rule surfaced as early as 1797, when a group of Caracas Creoles conspired for independence, though the plot was quickly suppressed. Sentiment for self-rule grew over the following decade, and on April 19, 1810, colonial officials in...
by Strong Americas | Aug 14, 2026
Uruguay’s independence movement grew out of the broader wars against Spanish colonial rule that swept South America in the early nineteenth century. José Gervasio Artigas led an early revolutionary campaign beginning in 1811 to expel Spanish authority from the...
