Caribbean History Series: Review: The Mighty Experiment
A book review of Seymour Drescher’s The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation
Jamaica
Southern History Series: Review: An Empire Divided
A book review of Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean
Southern History Series: Review: Hubs of Empire
A book review of Matthew Mulcahy’s Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean
Review: Hubs of Empire
The Lowcountry is part of the Greater Caribbean
Founding Greater Caribbean
The British come to the Caribbean in search of riches
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: 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 […]
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: Review: An Empire Divided
British West Indies Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean is an excellent book which sheds considerable light on […]
Caribbean Project: The Lost White Tribes of Jamaica
Jamaica H/T whitecarib Is this the future we want for Dixie? Is this the road we want to go down? Do you really want to […]
Caribbean Project: Rent a Rasta
Jamaica This is unquestionably the single most disgusting aspect of modern Jamaica: every year as many as 80,000 Western mudsharks, mostly the fat, old, and […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Dead Yard
Jamaica Ian Thomson’s The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica is a travelogue with an occasional sojourn into history that attempts capture the essence […]
Caribbean Project: Trench Town
Jamaica Thie documentary below explores the life of the Black Undertow in Trench Town in post-independence Jamaica. Trench Town, the home of DWL music legend […]
Caribbean Project: Slavery In Jamaica
Jamaica In the BBC documentary “Slavery In Jamaica,” the rise and fall of the Beckford family is used to illustrate the plantation system. Where there […]
Caribbean Project: Infrastructure Collapses In Post-Independence Jamaica
Jamaica In racialist circles, Haiti has become the ultimate symbol of how freedom has failed, how civilization has declined in the Caribbean after the demise […]
Caribbean Project: Free Labor vs. Slave Labor In Post-Emancipation Jamaica
Jamaica Whenever I hear libertarians prattle on about the superiority of free labor over slave labor, I roll my eyes because the poor dears know […]
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: 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: 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: 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 […]