Review: Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped From The Beginning
Black anti-racist scholar presents “the definitive history of racist ideas in America”
Slavery
The Cost of Muh Freedom!
Countless ex-slaves died after abolition
Why Did The Southern States Secede From The Union?
The South wanted to create a new conservative nation
The Confederacy: Why Did It Have Racism, Slavery and White Supremacy?
Popular morality changes over time
Rainbow Confederates Are Wrong About History
The Confederacy really was racist
The Virginia Model
Early Virginians were influenced by the Spanish model of conquest
Review: Hubs of Empire
The Lowcountry is part of the Greater Caribbean
The Barbados Slave Act of 1661
Racial attitudes in the English Caribbean
Ross Douthat’s Racial Bargain
Reparations for slavery in exchange for ending affirmative action
Africa’s Great Civilizations: The Atlantic Age
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the slave trade
Explaining Slavery
How did slavery even happen?
Caribbean Project: A New World of Labor
Barbados was the cultural hearth of the Deep South
Review: Michael Cushman’s ‘Our Southern Nation’
The rise and fall of the Golden Circle
Review: A History of Appalachia
Richard B. Drake’s A History of Appalachia is an excellent introduction to the history and culture of the people of the region. The book can […]
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: 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 […]
Haiti Debate
Caribbean Sea Over at Crossroads, I am explaining in the comment section why Haiti evolved into Haiti, and why Haiti is so much worse off today […]
Migrant Workers Claim Modern Slavery In Florida
Florida In Florida’s tomato fields, a Hispanic helot underclass toils in the burning sun to pick tomatoes for McDonald’s and Taco Bell in slavery-like conditions. “Slavery” […]
Jewish Confederates
CSA In the antebellum era, Jews were more likely than Gentiles to own slaves and were disproportionately involved in the slave trade. Jews went along […]
Southern Jews and Reconstruction
Dixie Here’s another fascinating excerpt from Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights on how southern Jews reacted to the demise of the […]
Caribbean Project: Were Georgia’s Poor Whites Exploited By Planters?
Georgia Here’s an excerpt from Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860 on the “exploitation” of poor Whites by the planter class: “Cultivating […]
Second Amendment Was Passed To Protect Slavery
District of Corruption Do you remember our old friend Thom Hartmann? Note: Progressives are salivating over the possibility of repealing the Bill of Rights. They […]
Scots-Irish Project: John C. Calhoun’s Family Background
South Carolina Here’s an excerpt from Karen McCarthy’s The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America: “Like Rankin, John Caldwell Calhoun was descended from […]
Review: Lincoln (2012)
District of Corruption Is there anything new to say about Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln? In my opinion, Lincoln is an excellent recruiting tool for Southern Nationalism. […]
Antebellum Christianity and Southern Racialism
Virginia Here’s an excerpt from David Goldfield’s America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation: “Slavery had made the black man in America, in […]
Chris Hayes: Fossil Fuel Industry Is Like Slavery
MSNBC Chris Hayes compares the abolition of slavery to opposition to the fossil fuel industry: Note: Fighting “Global Climate Change” through the War on Coal […]
Review: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
American South Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman’s 1974 book Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery is a mythbusting revisionist tour of […]
Slavery Myths: Southern Slavery and Human Development
American South This information comes from Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery: Life Expectancy Did you know that the typical slave born […]
Slavery Myths: Life Expectancy
American South Here’s the average life expectancy at birth for American slaves in 1850 compared to the life expectancy of various “free” populations around the […]
Slavery Myths: Slaves Spent Most of Their Time Picking Cotton
Antebellum South Slavery in the United States was nothing compared to the intensity of Cuban slavery where slaves commonly spent as much as 20 hours […]