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 […]
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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 […]
Black History Month 2013: France Abolishes Slavery
French Caribbean NewsOne is celebrating February 4 as the 219th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the French Empire. It was on this fateful […]
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: 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: Louis Sebastien Mercier, Abbé Raynal, and Black Jacobinism
France If you ever wondered why the slaves in Saint-Domingue and the French Caribbean were emancipated and why free negroes were transformed into French citizens […]
Caribbean Project: Review: A Colony of Citizens
Guadeloupe In A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804, Laurent DuBois focuses on the French Revolution as it unfolded […]
Caribbean Project: Review: An Island Divided
Hispanolia Skip Gates continues his investigation of Black in Latin America: My takeaways: (1) Hispanolia is an interesting place. It was ground zero of the […]
Caribbean Project: Steve Sailer on Haiti
Haiti Steve Sailer has a post on Haiti at VDARE that touches upon the territory of OD’s Caribbean Project: “For example, in Why Is Haiti […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti’s Inexorable Decline
Haiti In the 208th year of free society, we have already seen how Sean Penn slammed the “whole fucking world” for Haiti Fatigue at the […]
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: 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: 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 […]
Haiti Project
Alabama In February, OD celebrated Black History Month 2012 by shining a bright light on how freedom has failed in post-colonial Africa. The purpose of […]
Haiti and Liberia: A Century Ago
Haiti and Liberia Here is what the State Department knew about Haiti and Liberia a century ago: “The experience of Liberia and Haiti show that […]
Black History Month 2012: Review: Égalité for All
Saint-Domingue Égalité for All: Touissant L’ouverature and the Haitian Revolution is a PBS documentary about the Haitian Revolution. The Haitian Revolution was the only successful […]
Haitian Earthquake: Two Years Later
Haiti Egalité for All! Two years ago on this day, 200,000 Haitians lost their lives after a rather mild 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the […]
The Lesson of Haiti
Posting this one for Robert Lindsay and Jeffrey Imm. Lady Liberty’s Lamp might also enjoy this video. Always a pleasure to listen to the great […]
Amanda Kijera: Liberal Human Rights Activist Raped in Haiti
.. and doesn’t learn a thing … blames White men for Haitian oppression. We are not your weapons – we are women By Amanda Kijera, […]
Let HIM Leave
The stand-up comedian Doug Stanhope thinks that Americans whose jobs are stolen by illegal immigrants are “losers of epic proportions“. I didn’t laugh when I […]
Machete Armed Gangs Looting Haiti
In the Daily Mail, a lynch mob beats a looter to death (see here and here) and drags his body through the streets of Port-au-Prince. More […]
David Brooks on Haiti
In The New York Times, David Brooks points out some obvious truths about the Haitian earthquake. A 7.0 earthquake struck the Bay Area in California […]
Haiti: Fun Fact
The U.S. didn’t extend diplomatic recognition to Haiti until 1862. The memory of the extermination of the White population by the negro rebels lingered on […]
Pat Robertson on Haiti
In this YouTube video, Pat Robertson claims that Haitians made a pact with the devil to win their independence and that the island has been cursed ever […]