Caribbean Project: A New World of Labor
Barbados was the cultural hearth of the Deep South
Barbados was the cultural hearth of the Deep South
Haiti Haiti’s Bad Press: Origins, Development, and Consequences by the anthropologist Robert Lawless can be summed up as another one of the “rose-tinted accounts of the […]
Haiti If Haiti’s apologists could ever be bothered to read this old book, they would be sorely disappointed with Ludwell Lee Montague’s Haiti and the […]
Haiti In the mid-1970s, Port-au-Prince in Haiti was a prime destination for American gay sex tourism, especially for male homosexuals in the New York City […]
Haiti We’ve already seen Hesketh Prichard’s description of the Cul-de-Sac plain in 1899 in Where Black Rules White. Sir Spenser St. John (1884) and Hesketh Prichard […]
Haiti There are few topics more dear to the heart of White Nationalists than the dream of colonizing African-Americans in a foreign country. I’ve spent […]
Haiti Even today, Sir Spenser St. John’s Hayti, or, The Black Republic still enjoys a reputation as the most negative book ever written about Haiti. Spenser […]
South Carolina The Barbados-South Carolina connection has come up in a discussion at Civil War Talk. There’s a thread over there that links to an […]
Haiti Here’s a key excerpt from Mats Lundahl’s Poverty In Haiti: Essays on Underdevelopment on the nature of Haiti’s external debt: “The occupation put an […]
Haiti There comes a point in every critical investigation when you either admit failure or strike pay dirt. In the course of OD’s Caribbean Project, […]
Haiti In racialist circles, Jared Diamond is known for his bestselling 1999 book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies which attempts to explain […]
Haiti Hesketh Prichard’s Where Black Rules White: A Journey Across and About Hayti is a travelogue written by a British explorer who set out in 1899 to […]
Haiti Philippe Girard’s Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation is easily the best of the most recent popular histories […]
Haiti Reading over Steve Sailer’s column “Why Haiti Is So Hopeless,” I am struck by how little attention is paid to the relative absence of tourism […]
Haiti At the suggestion of OD commentator Michael, I bought a copy of Philippe Gerard’s Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean […]
Haiti Victor Bulmer-Thomas’ The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars is a massive 710 page analysis of the economic development of the Caribbean […]
Caribbean I’m finally wrapping up my research. At the outset of the “Caribbean Project,” I wanted to investigate 1.) how the culture of the Caribbean […]
Caribbean In spite of all that has been written here about the Golden Circle, the sugar plantation in the Caribbean has gone the way of […]
Caribbean Here’s an interview with Nicholas Shaxson, the author of Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens: Note: This explains what we […]
Haiti During the Crossroads Haiti Debate, I was struck by the fact that even university professors and high school teachers who teach history to American […]
Haiti In the Crossroads Haiti Debate, I came across the myth that Western countries essentially ganged up on Haiti and strangled its economy out of […]
Haiti Laurent Dubois, a historian at Duke University who specializes in the French Caribbean, wrote Haiti: The Aftershocks of History in the aftermath of the […]
Cayman Islands Imagine a place that is 60 percent multiracial, 20 percent black, and 20 percent White, but where 1.9 percent of the population lives […]
Haiti For several years now, I have used this blog to indulge in one of my favorite hobbies: in the dead of winter, usually during […]
Haiti Victor Schoelcher, the most famous French abolitionist of the 19th century, whose life work culminated in the final abolition of slavery in the French […]
Haiti In 1789, there were 288 sugar plantations in Haiti’s Northern Province, 314 sugar plantations in Haiti’s Western Province, and 191 sugar plantations in Haiti’s […]
Haiti Editor’s Note: I’m compiling a list of the usual explanations for Haiti’s failure along with an explanation why each doesn’t make sense. The blows […]
Haiti Here’s an excerpt from Spenser St. John’s “Hayti, or the Black Republic”: “The vexed question as to the position held by the negroes in […]
Haiti Here’s something that you won’t find in the Wikipedia entry about Haiti’s external debt: “Although payments were occasionally suspended, partially during 1843-8 and 1867-9, […]
Haiti Editor’s Note: Here’s my latest response in the Crossroads Haiti Debate. No, but you routinely ignore it, opting instead to look at race inferiority […]
Haiti Jonathan M. Katz’s The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster is a memoir […]
Georgia Here’s an excerpt from Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860 on the “exploitation” of poor Whites by the planter class: “Cultivating […]
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