Review: Hubs of Empire
The Lowcountry is part of the Greater Caribbean
Antigua
Founding Greater Caribbean
The British come to the Caribbean in search of riches
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: 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 Leeward Islands
Leeward Islands It is time for some pure escapism from BRA … a journey to the Leeward Islands in the northern Lesser Antilles, the British […]
Breaking The Golden Circle
South Carolina Check out SNN’s excellent podcast on my review of Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided.
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 […]