Caribbean Project: Economic Impact of the US Occupation In Haiti, 1915-1934
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 […]
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Caribbean Project: Haiti’s Trade and Caribbean World Market Shares
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 […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
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 […]
Caribbean Project: Cayman Islands vs. Haiti
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 […]
Caribbean Project: The Duvalierist Revolution
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 […]
Caribbean Project: Victor Schoelcher on Haiti
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 […]
Caribbean Project: The Demise of Haiti’s Sugar Industry
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 […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti: The Usual Explanations
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 […]
Caribbean Project: Spenser St. John on Haitians
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 […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti’s Double Debt
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, […]
Caribbean Project: Crossroads Haiti Debate
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 […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Big Truck That Went By
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 […]
Caribbean Project: Were Georgia’s Poor Whites Exploited By Planters?
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 […]
Caribbean Project: Georgia: The Failed White Utopia
Georgia Here’s an excerpt from Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860: “The trustees envisioned Georgia as a refuge for the common man. […]
Caribbean Project: Georgia & the Golden Circle
Georgia Palmetto Patriot’s copy of On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World has arrived and he has begun to […]
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: Freedom Failed In Jamaica
Jamaica Having finished my reviews of Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater and Escape From Detroit, I have plunged into Ian Thomson’s […]
Caribbean Project: Sean Penn Slams “Whole Fucking World” for Haiti Fatigue
Haiti I’ve managed to find some juicy excepts using various sources from Sean Penn’s now infamous Haiti speech at the Cannes Film Festival: “It’s not […]
Caribbean Project: Knights of the Golden Circle
Mexico Palmetto Patriot has been researching the most colorful of the Masonic-inspired Southern Rights organizations: the Knights of the Golden Circle. The Knights of the Golden […]
Caribbean Project: British West Indies Emancipation and The Visible Black Hand of Economics
Jamaica The compensated emancipation of slaves in the British West Indies (1833-1840) has been used by Thomas DiLorenzo and other libertarians to argue that free […]
Caribbean Project: Poverty In Paradise
Bermuda Bermuda is the third richest country in the world. How has this small island of 67,837 people (54.8 percent of whom are of negro […]
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 […]
Caribbean Project: White British Family Kicked Out of Bermuda
Bermuda H/T Paul Kersey As Britain is invaded by swarms of Third World immigrants from the Commonwealth, Bermuda is kicking out White Britons. Stephen Tomlinson […]
Caribbean Project: Origins of the Deep South
South Carolina H/T SNN Palmetto Patriot is plugging away at our Caribbean Project and has turned up an important find about the Barbados connection in […]
Caribbean Project: Why Is Haiti, Haiti?
Haiti The collapse of Saint-Domingue, the richest colony in the entire world, into the Republic of Haiti, which is the poorest country in the Western […]
Caribbean Project: The Failure of White Colonization in Jamaica
Jamaica In Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom: History, Heritage, and Culture, Trevor Burnard has a fascinating essay that I have been reading called “Not a […]
Caribbean Project: Free Negroes In Hayti (1859)
Haiti W.W. Wright’s “Free Negroes in Haiti” appeared in the November 1859 edition of DeBow’s Review. It is difficult to exaggerate the impact in Dixie […]
Caribbean Project: The Haitian Earthquake of 1842
Haiti The following excerpts come from Sir Spenser St. John’s 1886 memoirs, Hayti, or the Black Republic. Sir Spenser St. John, the British chargé d’affaires […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti’s Culture of Rape
Haiti In Haiti, rape wasn’t considered a crime until 2005. Before the 2005 law, Haitian judges offered rape victims monetary compensation or marriage to the rapist […]