Slavery: Demolishing The Yankee Stereotypes
Confederate States of America My copy of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery arrived this morning. […]
Confederate States of America My copy of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery arrived this morning. […]
BRA Porter found this on Mitt Romney’s website: Israel: “Israel’s existence as a Jewish state is not up for debate.” America: “(America) is not a […]
South Carolina Remind you of anyone? Note: For those of you planning to vote in November, you can learn more about “Mitt’s Plan” on Black […]
BRA Here’s the latest lamestream conservative article from Ann Coulter who has a new book out on White guilt: Note: This is why the “Alt […]
Ohio H/T SBPDL The last thing we would want to do is secede from the Glorious Union that is providing the “Obama Phone” to the […]
Spain Paging jeppo… “(Reuters) – The parliament of Spain’s powerful but heavily indebted region of Catalonia voted in favor of holding a referendum on independence […]
British West Indies In preparation for writing OD’s first book, Shattering The Golden Circle: The Failure of Free Society in Dixie, Haiti, and the Caribbean, […]
Great Britain Now playing … the story of William Wilberforce and British abolitionism. This is the whole two hour movie. I will write a review […]
Amurrica The latest appeal for Mitt Romney in November:
Barbados I’ve come across this phrase “beyond the line” several times during my research and have begun to realize its immense importance to understanding how […]
Massachusetts H/T CWMemory I would like to think that denouncing us here in the OD comment section provided Ferg a small comfort during his last […]
Amerika Steve Harris at Amerika.org writes: “I have observed that almost nobody understands just about anything during this election. People are telling you stupid stuff, […]
Great Britain Seymour Drescher’s The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation is an attempt to understand the abolition of slavery in the […]
British West Indies In Caribbean Project: Review: Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century, we saw how the abolition of slavery in Haiti (1794) […]
VNN Forum Alex Linder writes: “It’s one thing to make intellectual arguments for slavery, that’s worth doing for a number of reasons, but it is […]
Dixie In light of the weakness of abolitionist fanatics in the North, why was the South so sensitive to abolitionist criticism? Why was the South […]
Great Britain This is very significant: “Far from strengthening the authority of natural science on this question, the British debate over slavery tended to marginalize […]
BRA Joan Walsh flags this new PPRI study on the White working class: “In mid-August, Romney held a commanding 40-point lead over Obama among white […]
Sierra Leone As Stephen Drescher observes in The Mighty Experiment, the total failure of free society in Sierra Leone, a free labor colony in West […]
Amerika Brett Stevens pushes back against the air that is rapidly deflating from the Mitt Romney presidential balloon. Mitt Romney has managed to piss off […]
Gallup Now for some good news … “Americans’ distrust in the media hit a new high this year, with 60% saying they have little or […]
Great Britain I’ve encountered this several times now in my research: during the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century, “anti-racism” was briefly ascendant in social science in […]
Michigan This ties in nicely with our historical discussion of how Adam Smith’s free labor ideology was foolishly imposed on the slave societies in the […]
British West Indies This is getting good. If the free labor system was so superior to slavery, as Adam Smith argued in The Wealth of […]
BRA Here’s the latest from the most important election of our lifetimes on which the fate of America hinges: “By JORDAN FABIAN MIAMI, Sept. 19, […]
South Carolina Here’s the link to the SNN podcast that I did this afternoon on my review of Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis. Note: […]
Maryland H/T Kosher Republic This is getting bigger than I expected it would be. If I was Matt, I would send a letter to the […]
New World In Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of New World Slavery, David Brion Davis sets the American South within the international context of […]
Greece For years, there has been considerable speculation on the internet as to whether “the collapse” would come, and whether it would work to our […]
Ireland This is a great point. I’m reading about how James Henry Hammond attacked the British abolitionists by pointing out how the same philanthropists full […]
Antebellum South This is interesting and draws upon Drew Gilpin Faust’s older book A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, […]
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