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 […]
History
Caribbean Project: “Beyond The Line”
Barbados I’ve come across this phrase “beyond the line” several times during my research and have begun to realize its immense importance to understanding how […]
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: Haiti, the British West Indies, and the South’s “Mirror”
Dixie In light of the weakness of abolitionist fanatics in the North, why was the South so sensitive to abolitionist criticism? Why was the South […]
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 […]
The Province of Freedom: Free Labor vs. Slave Labor in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone As Stephen Drescher observes in The Mighty Experiment, the total failure of free society in Sierra Leone, a free labor colony in West […]
Caribbean Project: Adam Smith, Free Labor, Slavery
British West Indies This is getting good. If the free labor system was so superior to slavery, as Adam Smith argued in The Wealth of […]
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: Racism: A History
BBC Watching now … the origins of the biggest sin in modern British society. Note: This is pretty silly. Europeans were obviously trying to understand […]
Live Thread: Death and the Civil War
PBS H/T Crossroads In light of all our discussions about slavery and the War Between the States (aka The War To Prevent BRA), the new […]
The Northern Reform Tradition: Cultural Origins of the DWL
American North This is the key to understanding why the United States has been transformed into BRA and is now on its deathbed: “Like the […]
Slaves Without Masters
American North Here is another amusing excerpt from Inhuman Bondage: “Much of this hostility to emancipation in any form arose from the widespread white fear […]
Bob Dylan Interview: “Stigma of Slavery” Ruined America
Rolling Stone Bob Dylan has given an interview to Rolling Stone magazine in which he is widely quoted saying that the “stigma of slavery ruined […]
Lincoln (2012)
BRA I notice that Tommy Lee Jones is playing Thaddeus Stevens, the leader of the Black Republicans in the House, who was so radical that […]
The Negro and The Enlightenment
Europe This excerpt comes from David Brion Davis’ Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World: “For example, David Hume, Britain’s […]
Slavery and Moral Sentiments
Rome Here’s an excerpt from David Brion Davis’ Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World about slavery in Ancient Rome. […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Slave Society In Cuba During The Nineteenth Century
Cuba Franklin W. Knight’s Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century tells the story of the rise and fall of Cuba as a race-based […]
Caribbean Project: Louis Sebastien Mercier, Abbé Raynal, and Black Jacobinism
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 Project: Review: The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
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 […]
The Balls Are Rolling …
United States, 1856 Here’s a Republican political cartoon from the 1856 presidential election (replace it with Obama/Biden vs. Romney/Ryan and it could just as easily […]
Caribbean Project: Review: A Colony of Citizens
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 […]
Caribbean Project: Napoleon Bonaparte: White Nationalist
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 […]
The English Civil War
Britain H/T Lew Rockwell Roundhead vs. Cavalier … the first war between the Yankee and the Southron races, this one also started by “the disturbers […]
SNN Podcast: Caribbean Project
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 […]
Derb on Lincoln’s Colonization Plan
VDARE Here’s the latest installment of Derb as Civil War buff. Note: Lincoln wasn’t serious about African colonization. For decades, the colonization movement had always […]
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 […]
Lies About The South
Virginia H/T CofCC
Caribbean Project: The Republican Origins of Anti-Racism
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 […]
Caribbean Project: Crucible of Empire
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, […]
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 […]
Preserving Our Heritage: Rhett’s Wisdom
South Carolina H/T Palmetto Patriot