Caribbean Project: The Proto South
Canary Islands I’ve just read a fascinating essay in The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples that is essentially a prehistory of […]
Canary Islands I’ve just read a fascinating essay in The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples that is essentially a prehistory of […]
Caribbean We have spent a lot of time this summer (while there is nothing else to do during the American election season) discussing the cultural […]
Saint-Domingue In Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, Laurent Dubois retells story of the single worst racial catastrophe that ever […]
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 Sea Robert E. May’s The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861 recounts the story of the South’s vision of Manifest Destiny in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
South Carolina Here are some of the topics we discussed in this podcast: (1) How “the South” is really “the North.” (2) Dixie as a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Leeward Islands It is time for some pure escapism from BRA … a journey to the Leeward Islands in the northern Lesser Antilles, the British […]
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, […]
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 […]
British West Indies Here’s another excerpt from Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean on White racial attitudes in […]
British West Indies The following excerpt comes from Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. The single biggest mistake […]
Jamaica H/T whitecarib Is this the future we want for Dixie? Is this the road we want to go down? Do you really want to […]
Brazil In the final episode of Black in Latin America, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. travels to Brazil, the second largest black country in the world, […]
Mexico and Peru In this episode of Black in Latin America, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. travels to Mexico and Peru to discover how black people […]
Hispanolia Skip Gates continues his investigation of Black in Latin America: My takeaways: (1) Hispanolia is an interesting place. It was ground zero of the […]
Cuba Here are my takeaway lessons: (1) As has been noted here several times, the French colony of Saint-Domingue used to be the richest colony […]
Barbados There are poor Whites descended from indentured servants scattered all across the Caribbean. Jamaica has pockets of Scots from the failed colony of New […]
British West Indies As I noted in the previous article, the British colonies in the Caribbean failed to become settler societies, unlike the plantation societies […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jamaica This is unquestionably the single most disgusting aspect of modern Jamaica: every year as many as 80,000 Western mudsharks, mostly the fat, old, and […]
Jamaica Ian Thomson’s The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica is a travelogue with an occasional sojourn into history that attempts capture the essence […]
Jamaica Thie documentary below explores the life of the Black Undertow in Trench Town in post-independence Jamaica. Trench Town, the home of DWL music legend […]
Jamaica In the BBC documentary “Slavery In Jamaica,” the rise and fall of the Beckford family is used to illustrate the plantation system. Where there […]
Jamaica In racialist circles, Haiti has become the ultimate symbol of how freedom has failed, how civilization has declined in the Caribbean after the demise […]
Jamaica Whenever I hear libertarians prattle on about the superiority of free labor over slave labor, I roll my eyes because the poor dears know […]
Jamaica Having finished my reviews of Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater and Escape From Detroit, I have plunged into Ian Thomson’s […]
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