Caribbean History Series: Review: The Mighty Experiment
A book review of Seymour Drescher’s The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation
Windward Islands
Southern History Series: Review: An Empire Divided
A book review of Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean
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
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: Amazing Grace (2006)
Great Britain Now playing … the story of William Wilberforce and British abolitionism. This is the whole two hour movie. I will write a review […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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: 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: Review: An Empire Divided
British West Indies Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean is an excellent book which sheds considerable light on […]