Caribbean Project: Sean Penn Slams “Whole Fucking World” for Haiti Fatigue
Haiti I’ve managed to find some juicy excepts using various sources from Sean Penn’s now infamous Haiti speech at the Cannes Film Festival: “It’s not […]
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Caribbean Project: Knights of the Golden Circle
Mexico Palmetto Patriot has been researching the most colorful of the Masonic-inspired Southern Rights organizations: the Knights of the Golden Circle. The Knights of the Golden […]
Caribbean Project: British West Indies Emancipation and The Visible Black Hand of Economics
Jamaica The compensated emancipation of slaves in the British West Indies (1833-1840) has been used by Thomas DiLorenzo and other libertarians to argue that free […]
Caribbean Project: Poverty In Paradise
Bermuda Bermuda is the third richest country in the world. How has this small island of 67,837 people (54.8 percent of whom are of negro […]
Caribbean Project: Emancipation in the British West Indies (1854)
British West Indies Emancipation in the British West Indies appeared in the April 1854 edition of the Southern Quarterly Review: “The position of inferiority and […]
Caribbean Project: White British Family Kicked Out of Bermuda
Bermuda H/T Paul Kersey As Britain is invaded by swarms of Third World immigrants from the Commonwealth, Bermuda is kicking out White Britons. Stephen Tomlinson […]
Caribbean Project: Origins of the Deep South
South Carolina H/T SNN Palmetto Patriot is plugging away at our Caribbean Project and has turned up an important find about the Barbados connection in […]
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 […]
Caribbean Project: The Failure of White Colonization in Jamaica
Jamaica In Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom: History, Heritage, and Culture, Trevor Burnard has a fascinating essay that I have been reading called “Not a […]
Caribbean Project: Free Negroes In Hayti (1859)
Haiti W.W. Wright’s “Free Negroes in Haiti” appeared in the November 1859 edition of DeBow’s Review. It is difficult to exaggerate the impact in Dixie […]
Caribbean Project: The Haitian Earthquake of 1842
Haiti The following excerpts come from Sir Spenser St. John’s 1886 memoirs, Hayti, or the Black Republic. Sir Spenser St. John, the British chargé d’affaires […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti’s Culture of Rape
Haiti In Haiti, rape wasn’t considered a crime until 2005. Before the 2005 law, Haitian judges offered rape victims monetary compensation or marriage to the rapist […]
Caribbean History Series: Review: The Mighty Experiment
A book review of Seymour Drescher’s The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation
Caribbean History Series: Can The Negro Rule Himself?
Absolutely not
Southern History Series: Review: The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
A book review of Robert E. May’s The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
Southern History Series: Founding Greater Caribbean
The culture of the Deep South got its start as an extension of the older culture of the British West Indies
Appalachia Project
Alabama We’ve already learned a lot here about the cultural origins of the Lower South in the “Golden Circle” plantation complex which was centered on […]
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 […]
North Star Project: The Repeal of Northern Anti-Miscegenation Laws
American North OD has spent the last several months exhaustively researching the shared racial history of the South and the Caribbean. While that research project […]
North Star Project: Camden Guts Police Force
New Jersey Camden, NJ is the epitome of what Paul Kersey has labeled the “Manifest Destruction” of the Black Undertow. In the aftermath of the […]
Haiti Project
Alabama In February, OD celebrated Black History Month 2012 by shining a bright light on how freedom has failed in post-colonial Africa. The purpose of […]
Tales From Detroit: Half of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out As City Shrinks
Michigan In my review of Paul Kersey’s Escape From Detroit, I revived John C. Calhoun’s argument that black people lack the capacity to maintain civilization […]
Haiti Descends Into Cannibal Chaos
Cannibal gangs overthrow the Haitian government
New York Times: Study Offers New Twist In How Humans Evolved
“The Science” is torn in two directions
Southern History Series: Review: At the Edge of Empire
A book review of Eric Hinderaker and Peter C. Mancell’s At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America
Joe Biden’s October Surprise: Occupying Haiti
Joe Biden is considering launching another intervention in Haiti
FT: Putin: The Disorder The Far Right and Far Left Have In Common
The far-right and far-left have a mutual loathing of American imperialism
The Evil Empire
The American Empire exhausted itself in a 20 year quagmire in the Middle East
Ross Douthat: The American Empire In Retreat
The American Empire is retreating from Central Asia
Haiti Earthquake
Joe Biden has kept us out of Haiti
Haitians Continue Their Storied Tradition of Assassinating Their Presidents
Haitian president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home last night
The GOP and Cultural Change
In the 1920 election, Warren Harding promised to Make America Normal Again