Caribbean Project: Review: Hayti, or, The Black Republic
Haiti Even today, Sir Spenser St. John’s Hayti, or, The Black Republic still enjoys a reputation as the most negative book ever written about Haiti. Spenser […]
Race Relations
Caribbean Project: The Barbados-South Carolina Connection
South Carolina The Barbados-South Carolina connection has come up in a discussion at Civil War Talk. There’s a thread over there that links to an […]
Caribbean Project: Who Is Mats Lundahl?
Haiti There comes a point in every critical investigation when you either admit failure or strike pay dirt. In the course of OD’s Caribbean Project, […]
Caribbean Project: Review: One Island, Two Peoples, Two Histories
Haiti In racialist circles, Jared Diamond is known for his bestselling 1999 book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies which attempts to explain […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Where Black Rules White – A Journey Across and About Hayti
Haiti Hesketh Prichard’s Where Black Rules White: A Journey Across and About Hayti is a travelogue written by a British explorer who set out in 1899 to […]
Black History Month 2014: The Plain of Cul-de-Sac
Haiti The year is 1899. Hesketh Prichard, a British explorer, adventurer, and travel writer, has arrived in Haiti to see with his own eyes the […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation
Haiti Philippe Girard’s Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation is easily the best of the most recent popular histories […]
Black History Month 2014: Papa Macías, The Pol Pot of Africa
Equatorial Guinea It wouldn’t be right to let Black History Month 2014 pass here without paying tribute to Francisco Macías Nguema of Equatorial Guinea. Dubbed […]
Black History Month 2014: The White Man’s Burden
Third World I stumbled across this book in the course of trying to find out the total amount of money that the West has spent […]
Black History Month 2014: The History of US Foreign Aid to Haiti
Haiti The Daily Beast has a new article by a 31-year-old journalist who has figured out what is wrong with Haiti. In “The Aid Industry […]
Black History Month 2014: Can The Negro Rule Himself?
Haiti Insofar as White Nationalists know anything about the history of Haiti, Dr. William Pierce’s classic ADV broadcast “The Lesson of Haiti” is usually the […]
Black History Month 2014: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Faustin I Soulouque
Haiti Of all the Haitian presidents of the nineteenth century, Emperor Faustin I Soulouque attracted the most foreign criticism, and is still considered by some […]
Caribbean Project: Benign Imperialism, US Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
Haiti At the suggestion of OD commentator Michael, I bought a copy of Philippe Gerard’s Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars
Haiti Victor Bulmer-Thomas’ The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars is a massive 710 page analysis of the economic development of the Caribbean […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti’s Trade and Caribbean World Market Shares
Haiti In the Crossroads Haiti Debate, I came across the myth that Western countries essentially ganged up on Haiti and strangled its economy out of […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
Haiti Laurent Dubois, a historian at Duke University who specializes in the French Caribbean, wrote Haiti: The Aftershocks of History in the aftermath of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Florida’s Development In The 1920s
Florida Here’s an excerpt from Michael Gannon’s The History of Florida on the settlement of South and Central Florida during the land boom the 1920s: […]
The Southernization of ‘La Florida’
Florida Why do we consider Florida a Southern state? What exactly is ‘Southern’ about Florida? If White Southerners are being demographically displaced in Florida, when did […]
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 […]
70 Year Old Grandfather Beaten In Florida
Florida Like the periodic bus beatings, this incident is just another example of black-on-everyone crime in Florida:
Florida’s Demographic Transformation, 1960-2010
Florida In 1960, there were only 4,951,560 people in Florida. 4,063,861 people in Florida, or 82 percent of the state’s population, were White. The remaining […]
Rep. Tyrone Brooks Indicted on Mail, Wire, and Tax Fraud Charges
Georgia Here’s a new wrinkle in the removal of the Tom Watson statue: Note: Brooks was indicted in May, but we were unaware of this […]
Tom Watson’s Racist Views, 100 Years Later
Georgia Warren Throckmorton, a longtime antagonist of the League of the South, is upset this morning by Tom Watson’s “racist views”: “In life — especially later […]
Abolition and Racial Equality
New England Here’s an excerpt below from Paul Goodman’s Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. I’m really enjoying this book. There […]
Good Riddance, Paul Bridges
Georgia Remember Paul Bridges? The Onion King? The mayor of Uvalda who sued Georgia with the SPLC and ACLU to block Georgia’s immigration law? He’s […]
Who Is Professor Steven Lance Stoll?
Florida Merry Christmas! – Google Search Results SNN has a new article on Professor Steven Lance Stoll, a Jewish homosexual from Akron, OH, who is […]
March 8: League of the South: Demonstration Against Marco Rubio & Amnesty (Tallahassee, FL)
Florida The date and location of the fourth League of the South rally has been announced … March 8th at the Florida State Capitol in […]
Of One Blood: Abolition and the Origins of Racial Equality
New England My copy arrived this afternoon: