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
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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: 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: 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: 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: The Windward Islands
The Windward Islands The Windward Islands are the southern half of the Lesser Antilles: Martinique, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, the Grenadines and Barbados. Most of […]
Caribbean Project: States’ Rights In The French West Indies
French West Indies Turning our attention to the French West Indies, we find the same debate over states’ rights vs. centralized government, conservatism vs. liberalism, […]