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 […]
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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 […]
Update: Romney Wins First 2012 Presidential Debate
Colorado Romney staggers Obama in Round One: Note: CBS poll also has Romney winning by 2 to 1.
Andrew Fraser on White Identity
Australia Andrew Fraser spins a long yarn here about the corrosive impact of whiteness on purebred Anglo-Saxons in America: “Today such grandiose visions seem absurdly out […]
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 […]
North Star Project: The Repeal of Northern Anti-Miscegenation Laws
American North OD has spent the last several months exhaustively researching the shared racial history of the South and the Caribbean. While that research project […]
North Star Project: Camden Guts Police Force
New Jersey Camden, NJ is the epitome of what Paul Kersey has labeled the “Manifest Destruction” of the Black Undertow. In the aftermath of the […]
Slavery: Demolishing The Yankee Stereotypes
Confederate States of America My copy of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery arrived this morning. […]
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: “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: 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 […]
The Province of Freedom: Free Labor vs. Slave Labor in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone As Stephen Drescher observes in The Mighty Experiment, the total failure of free society in Sierra Leone, a free labor colony in West […]
Caribbean Project: Adam Smith, Free Labor, Slavery
British West Indies This is getting good. If the free labor system was so superior to slavery, as Adam Smith argued in The Wealth of […]
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: Racism: A History
BBC Watching now … the origins of the biggest sin in modern British society. Note: This is pretty silly. Europeans were obviously trying to understand […]
Live Thread: Death and the Civil War
PBS H/T Crossroads In light of all our discussions about slavery and the War Between the States (aka The War To Prevent BRA), the new […]
The Northern Reform Tradition: Cultural Origins of the DWL
American North This is the key to understanding why the United States has been transformed into BRA and is now on its deathbed: “Like the […]
Slaves Without Masters
American North Here is another amusing excerpt from Inhuman Bondage: “Much of this hostility to emancipation in any form arose from the widespread white fear […]
Bob Dylan Interview: “Stigma of Slavery” Ruined America
Rolling Stone Bob Dylan has given an interview to Rolling Stone magazine in which he is widely quoted saying that the “stigma of slavery ruined […]
Lincoln (2012)
BRA I notice that Tommy Lee Jones is playing Thaddeus Stevens, the leader of the Black Republicans in the House, who was so radical that […]
The Negro and The Enlightenment
Europe This excerpt comes from David Brion Davis’ Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World: “For example, David Hume, Britain’s […]
Slavery and Moral Sentiments
Rome Here’s an excerpt from David Brion Davis’ Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World about slavery in Ancient Rome. […]
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: 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: 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 […]
The Balls Are Rolling …
United States, 1856 Here’s a Republican political cartoon from the 1856 presidential election (replace it with Obama/Biden vs. Romney/Ryan and it could just as easily […]
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 […]