Around 1750, the British mainland American ... Caribbean. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, or 300,000 people, were enslaved. Poverty in Northern Ireland forced a massive flight of Scots-Irish to the colonies.

3 million enslaved Africans were carried on British ... from the North American colonies meant that prices in these crops were falling. In response, the owners of the large Caribbean plantations ...

Former colonial powers must apologise and pay compensation for their historic role in the enslavement of Africans, Grenadian ...

Home to the Amazon rainforest and the world’s most biodiverse savannah, Latin America and the Caribbean are integral hubs for thousands of plant and animal species – and the Indigenous Peoples ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s ... per cent of the world’s silver because it conquered several colonies in Latin America, such as Peru and Mexico. England wanted the money and ...

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will use a keynote speech in the Chilean capital Santiago on Monday 22 May to set out the UK’s future relationship with Latin America. The speech comes ...