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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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: 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: 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 […]
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: 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, […]
Caribbean Project: Steve Sailer on Haiti
Haiti Steve Sailer has a post on Haiti at VDARE that touches upon the territory of OD’s Caribbean Project: “For example, in Why Is Haiti […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti’s Inexorable Decline
Haiti In the 208th year of free society, we have already seen how Sean Penn slammed the “whole fucking world” for Haiti Fatigue at the […]
Caribbean Project: Why Is Haiti, Haiti?
Haiti The collapse of Saint-Domingue, the richest colony in the entire world, into the Republic of Haiti, which is the poorest country in the Western […]
Black History Month 2012: Review: Égalité for All
Saint-Domingue Égalité for All: Touissant L’ouverature and the Haitian Revolution is a PBS documentary about the Haitian Revolution. The Haitian Revolution was the only successful […]