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Calvin G. Brown History 01 March 2026

HISTORY AND CULTURE | Jamaica's Black Holocaust: The Five Million Who Were Never Allowed to Be Born

Professor Orlando Patterson names the unspeakable — and the numbers demand we listen

BY CALVIN G. BROWN | OP-ED | WIREDJA

I. A Comparison That Should Stop Us Cold

History has given us a measuring stick for atrocity. When we say "genocide," the world conjures one image above all others — the systematic annihilation of six million Jewish men, women, and children under Adolf Hitler's Third Reich between 1933 and 1945.

Calvin G. Brown History 01 March 2026

Professor H. Orlando Patterson -— John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.

Mau Mau suspects are rounded up by police outside a camp in Manyani, Kenya in 1955. Archive Photos/Getty Images

KENYA | The shameful truth about British colonial abuse and how it was covered up

It is fairly well known that the lives of hundreds of thousands of Kenyans were affected by terrible acts of violence under the British colonial administration. The British government and...

Aoife Duffy, University of Essex History 30 August 2025

British policemen hold men from the village of Kariobangi at gunpoint while their homes are searched for evidence that they participated in the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952. Getty Images

AFRICA | Christians and the British empire: how a church NGO got entangled in colonial violence in Kenya

In the 1950s, Kenyans fought against colonial control in what came to be known as the Mau Mau rebellion. In response, the British government announced a state of emergency in...

Poppy Cullen, Loughborough University History 30 August 2025

DIASPORA | The American Betrayal Pattern: What Lincoln's Legacy Teaches the Caribbean About Political Promises

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, August 22, 2025 - The annual Juneteenth celebrations across America carry a bitter irony that resonates deeply throughout the African diaspora in the Caribbean. While millions commemorate...

WiredJA News Team History 22 August 2025

How to fix democracy? Ancient philosopher Plato may have an answer

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”. Not only was...

Matthew Duncombe, University of Nottingham History 26 February 2025

Mining in Colombia in the 1560s, an illustration from the Drake manuscript. Credit: Histoire naturelle des Indes/slaveryimages.org

AFRICA | Slavery, tax evasion, resistance: the story of 11 Africans in South America’s gold mines in the 1500s

The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most devastating and inhumane processes in human history. It is the subject of many studies, but the individual life histories of the...

Paola Vargas Arana, University of Manchester History 11 January 2025

Professor H. Orlando Patterson's chilling analysis brings the scale of this atrocity into sharp focus

JAMAICA"S hidden Slave Holocaust: H. Orlando Patterson's chilling analysis of our Cruel Legacy

MONTEGO BAY, August 3, 2025 - As Jamaica approaches its 63rd anniversary of political independence from Britain on August 6, 2025, the shadow of the hidden Jamaican Slave Holocaust looms...

Calvin G. Brown History 01 August 2024

AFRICA | Emancipation Day 2024: Remembering the Journey from Slavery to Freedom

MONTEGO BAY, JULY 16, 2024 - On August 1, 2024, descendants of enslaved Africans across the Caribbean and former British colonies in Africa will commemorate Emancipation Day. This solemn celebration...

Calvin G. Brown History 16 July 2024

Jamaica Slave Holocaust, as destructive as Hitler’s European Experiment

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, March 19, 2024 - In a world that prides itself on progress and enlightenment, the shadow of genocide looms large, a stark reminder of humanity's capacity for...

Calvin G. Brown History 20 March 2024

Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: causes, what happened, and justice

This article marks the first publication of our section "Pointers". Designed to facilitate access to Justice Info, it opens a gateway to international justice, entering into the complexity in an...

JusticeInfo.net History 26 January 2024

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I. A Comparison That Should Stop Us Cold