New York Times: California Panel Sizes Up Reparations For Black Citizens
California is exploring paying blacks reparations for slavery
Cuba
45 People Were Shot In Chicago In One Night
It was a particularly bloody weekend in Chicago
Cubans Protest Communist Regime
Thousands of Cubans and Cuban exiles are protesting the communist regime
Southern History Series: Review: The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
A book review of Robert E. May’s The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
Rebel Yell: American Nations, Spanish Caribbean
The plantation complex spread throughout the Caribbean, South America and the American South
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
Fidel Castro Is Dead
Florida has become the old Cuba
Tales From Detroit: South Warren
Michigan Here’s an excerpt from Charlie LeDuff’s new book, Detroit: An American Autopsy, which describes how the immutable laws of the Visible Black Hand of […]
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: 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: Review: Slave Society In Cuba During The Nineteenth Century
Cuba Franklin W. Knight’s Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century tells the story of the rise and fall of Cuba as a race-based […]
Caribbean Project: The Emergence of the Cuban Black Undertow
Cuba In 1864, Cuban planter Cristóbal Madan rails against the free colored population – the emerging Black Undertow of Cuba – which at that time […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
Caribbean Sea Robert E. May’s The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861 recounts the story of the South’s vision of Manifest Destiny in the […]
Caribbean Project: Crucible of Empire
Cuba Here’s a two hour documentary on the Spanish-American War: Note: While some antebellum Southerners fantasized about creating a Golden Circle slave empire in the Caribbean, […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Black In Cuba
Cuba Here are my takeaway lessons: (1) As has been noted here several times, the French colony of Saint-Domingue used to be the richest colony […]