President Trump: Why Should We Accept Immigrants From “Shithole Countries” Like Haiti?
President Trump asks a very good question
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Stark: ‘Savage Executioners’ in Haiti
Continuing with our examination of James Henry Stark’s observations detailed in his book Stark’s History and Guide to Barbados and the Caribee Islands (1893) it is interesting to note […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti and the United States, 1714-1938
Haiti If Haiti’s apologists could ever be bothered to read this old book, they would be sorely disappointed with Ludwell Lee Montague’s Haiti and the […]
Caribbean Project: James Franklin on Haiti (1828)
Haiti We’ve already seen Hesketh Prichard’s description of the Cul-de-Sac plain in 1899 in Where Black Rules White. Sir Spenser St. John (1884) and Hesketh Prichard […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Hayti, or, The Black Republic
Haiti Even today, Sir Spenser St. John’s Hayti, or, The Black Republic still enjoys a reputation as the most negative book ever written about Haiti. Spenser […]
Caribbean Project: Who Is Mats Lundahl?
Haiti There comes a point in every critical investigation when you either admit failure or strike pay dirt. In the course of OD’s Caribbean Project, […]
Caribbean Project: Review: One Island, Two Peoples, Two Histories
Haiti In racialist circles, Jared Diamond is known for his bestselling 1999 book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies which attempts to explain […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation
Haiti Philippe Girard’s Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation is easily the best of the most recent popular histories […]
Black History Month 2014: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Faustin I Soulouque
Haiti Of all the Haitian presidents of the nineteenth century, Emperor Faustin I Soulouque attracted the most foreign criticism, and is still considered by some […]
Caribbean Project: Labadee, Hispanolia
Haiti Reading over Steve Sailer’s column “Why Haiti Is So Hopeless,” I am struck by how little attention is paid to the relative absence of tourism […]
Black History Month 2014: The Real Power Behind Baby Doc
Haiti In 1986, CBS aired a piece by Ed Bradley on the fall of Haiti’s “President-for-Life,” Jean-Claude Duvalier. “Baby Doc,” who ruled Haiti from 1971 […]
Caribbean Project: Benign Imperialism, US Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
Haiti At the suggestion of OD commentator Michael, I bought a copy of Philippe Gerard’s Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars
Haiti Victor Bulmer-Thomas’ The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars is a massive 710 page analysis of the economic development of the Caribbean […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Big Truck That Went By
Haiti Jonathan M. Katz’s The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster is a memoir […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Avengers of the New World
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 […]
The Lesson of Haiti
Posting this one for Robert Lindsay and Jeffrey Imm. Lady Liberty’s Lamp might also enjoy this video. Always a pleasure to listen to the great […]
Machete Armed Gangs Looting Haiti
In the Daily Mail, a lynch mob beats a looter to death (see here and here) and drags his body through the streets of Port-au-Prince. More […]
Haiti: Fun Fact
The U.S. didn’t extend diplomatic recognition to Haiti until 1862. The memory of the extermination of the White population by the negro rebels lingered on […]
Haiti Earthquake
The Haiti earthquake is the racial story of the moment. Let me go ahead and put this out there. I know we are all thinking […]