Caribbean History Series: Review: The Mighty Experiment
A book review of Seymour Drescher’s The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation
Barbados
Southern History Series: Review: An Empire Divided
A book review of Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean
Southern History Series: The Birth of Whiteness
White identity was forged in the crucible of sugar and slavery in the British Caribbean
Southern History Series: Review: Hubs of Empire
A book review of Matthew Mulcahy’s Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean
Southern History Series: Review: The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
A book review of Philip D. Curtin’s book The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
Review: Hubs of Empire
The Lowcountry is part of the Greater Caribbean
The Barbados Slave Act of 1661
Racial attitudes in the English Caribbean
Founding Greater Caribbean
The British come to the Caribbean in search of riches
The Barbadian Empire
The Barbardian Diaspora spread across the Greater Caribbean
Caribbean Project: A New World of Labor
Barbados was the cultural hearth of the Deep South
Caribbean Project: SNN on Caribbean Origins of Southern Plantation System
British West Indies Palmetto Patriot has an excellent article on this at SNN: it was pioneered by Dutch and Portuguese Jews in Brazil, who played […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Amazing Grace (2006)
Great Britain Now playing … the story of William Wilberforce and British abolitionism. This is the whole two hour movie. I will write a review […]
Caribbean Project: “Beyond The Line”
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 […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Mighty Experiment
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 […]
Caribbean Project: Free Labor Jamaica vs. Slave Labor Cuba
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) […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
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 […]
Caribbean Project: The Windward Islands
The Windward Islands The Windward Islands are the southern half of the Lesser Antilles: Martinique, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, the Grenadines and Barbados. Most of […]
Breaking The Golden Circle
South Carolina Check out SNN’s excellent podcast on my review of Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided.
Caribbean Project: Review: An Empire Divided
British West Indies Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean is an excellent book which sheds considerable light on […]
Caribbean Project: Barbadosed
Barbados There are poor Whites descended from indentured servants scattered all across the Caribbean. Jamaica has pockets of Scots from the failed colony of New […]
Caribbean Project: Emancipation in the British West Indies (1854)
British West Indies Emancipation in the British West Indies appeared in the April 1854 edition of the Southern Quarterly Review: “The position of inferiority and […]