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 […]
Racism
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) […]
Linder on Slavery
VNN Forum Alex Linder writes: “It’s one thing to make intellectual arguments for slavery, that’s worth doing for a number of reasons, but it is […]
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 […]
Selma Blacks Outraged Over Replacement Forrest Bust
Alabama They stole the original bust in the middle of the night … now they are willing to die to stop its replacement. WSFA.com: News […]
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 […]
Matthew Heimbach’s Call to Action
Maryland I’m crossposting this here for Matthew. – HW “As a new school year dawns here at Towson University, we must address one of the […]
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 […]
The Cost of the Union: White Protestants, Look Out
CNN CNN is running this article: “(CNN) – Attention white Anglo-Saxon Protestants: Your days of running things are over. You have jumped the shark. But […]
Caribbean Project: The Emergence of the Cuban Black Undertow
Cuba In 1864, Cuban planter Cristóbal Madan rails against the free colored population – the emerging Black Undertow of Cuba – which at that time […]
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 […]
Tales From Detroit: Free Nikes To Show Up At School
Michigan 90 percent black Detroit … a Tuskegee or Selma of some 706,000 people, a metropolitan eyesore that you must have to see with your […]
Re: “White Dream Chaser”
Dixie I rarely feed the trolls but this little turd dropped in the comments is an opportunity to highlight the differences between White Nationalism and […]
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: Napoleon Bonaparte: White Nationalist
France This is fascinating: Napoleon restored slavery in Guadeloupe and French Guiana, arrested and imprisoned Toussaint L’Ouverature, attempted to restore slavery in Saint-Domingue, banned negroes […]
Tales From Detroit: Decorated Vietnam Vet Murdered
Michigan H/T CofCC This is where 313Chris is coming from … these black thugs murdered a White grandfather who was defending his grandchildren. Note: WW2 […]
Romney’s Welfare Ad
BRA So, Romney finally grows some balls and calls Obama out on gutting welfare reform, and liberals are crying foul here and here. Imagine what […]
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 […]
Amurrica Series: Blue Twilight on the Pacific
California H/T Via Meadia Walter Russell Mead links to the latest New York Times article on The Day The Criminals Were Released From Prison in […]
Caribbean Project: The Republican Origins of Anti-Racism
French West Indies I’m still reading Laurent DuBois’s A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 about the French Revolution […]
Caribbean Project: Crucible of Empire
Cuba Here’s a two hour documentary on the Spanish-American War: Note: While some antebellum Southerners fantasized about creating a Golden Circle slave empire in the Caribbean, […]
Caribbean Project: The Leeward Islands
Leeward Islands It is time for some pure escapism from BRA … a journey to the Leeward Islands in the northern Lesser Antilles, the British […]