Caribbean History Series: Review: The Mighty Experiment
A book review of Seymour Drescher’s The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation
British West Indies
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
Caribbean Project: On The Rim of the Caribbean
Georgia I can’t wait to get my new book: On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World. Note: Georgia was […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
New World Philip D. Curtin’s The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex is a series of essays about the transnational entity that we have […]
Caribbean Project: Visualizing The Plantation Complex
New World In The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex, Philip D. Curtin describes the geographic spread and extent of the slave plantation: “With […]
Caribbean Project: Sephardic Jews Move To British and French Caribbean
Eastern Caribbean Here’s another excerpt from Philip D. Curtin’s The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex which touches on the Jewish role in spreading […]
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 […]
OD’s Indictment
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, […]
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: 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: Haiti, the British West Indies, and the South’s “Mirror”
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 […]
Caribbean Project: Abolition and the Weakness of British Racialism, 1788 to 1838
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 […]
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 Leeward Islands
Leeward Islands It is time for some pure escapism from BRA … a journey to the Leeward Islands in the northern Lesser Antilles, the British […]
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: Racial Attitudes In The British West Indies
British West Indies Here’s another excerpt from Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean on White racial attitudes in […]
Caribbean Project: The American Revolution: A Victory for Anti-Slavery
British West Indies The following excerpt comes from Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. The single biggest mistake […]
Sailer on July 4th
Takimag Steve Sailer writes: “Every Fourth of July, a heretical question nags: Would it have been so bad if America hadn’t won its independence from […]
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: Demographic Failure of White Settlement in the British West Indies
British West Indies As I noted in the previous article, the British colonies in the Caribbean failed to become settler societies, unlike the plantation societies […]
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 […]