High on a hill in southwest Martinique are 20 white stone effigies, silently facing Diamond Beach and the Caribbean Sea. They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly ...

While many visitors to Martinique regard it for its beauty and the fruits of its labor — think: lush gardens, world-class rum ...

Schoelcher Library in Fort-de-France should hold a spot on your travel itinerary for its history and ornate design ... in Paris before it was shipped to Martinique and reassembled along the ...

Until recently, most travelers to the French island of Martinique in the West Indies ... now a crucial witness to history and volcanic processes. Ruins of the grand theater of St. Pierre ...

"First we were enslaved. Then we were poisoned." That's how many on Martinique see the history of their French Caribbean island that, to tourists, means sun, rum, and palm-fringed beaches.