Suriname, the smallest country in South America, has Dutch as its official langauge. This is due to its past as a colony of the Netherlands until 1975, when the country gained independence.

Latin America since Independence begins with the assumption that our efforts to imagine a common past for nearly thirty countries are deeply problematic. Without losing sight of chronology or regional ...

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence ... slavery of Africans in America and the civil slavery that ...

Independence would effectively make them ... and French Guiana in South America — all choose to remain French. If you live in an overseas department of France, then you get a good, free ...

In his first version of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson wrote a scathing indictment of King George for promoting slavery in the New World. The other delegates eventually removed ...

Currently almost two hundred strong they are the largest from mainland South America and have greatly ... The date refers to the Chilean independence take off process back in 1810, and in the ...