Black freedom in the Caribbean didn’t begin in 1804—it began in 1500. This series reveals the 300 years of erased history that changed the Americas.

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The Hidden Caribbean: The 300-Year Erasure uncovers three centuries of suppressed history that reshapes our understanding of Black agency in the Americas. Long before the Haitian Revolution of 1804, free Black explorers, maroon leaders, and Afro-Indigenous alliances were shaping the Caribbean and the Atlantic World. Drawing on primary Spanish colonial archives and leading Afro-Caribbean scholarship, the series reveals how Black autonomy, resistance, and maritime power emerged as early as the 1500s—laying the groundwork for every liberation movement that followed. This is a global story of the origins of freedom in the New World, restoring the full timeline of the Black Atlantic and reframing the history of the Americas