Category Archives: White Supremacy

Review: Dividing Lines (Birmingham)

Alabama Exactly 50 years ago, the Birmingham business community surrendered to integration as a result of pressure from the federal government and negative media publicity from the May 1963 demonstrations. Those civil rights demonstrations led by Martin Luther King, Jr. … Continue reading

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50 Years Forward: 155 White Guys, the 1901 Constitution, and Birmingham’s Prosperity

Alabama David Sher’s “Comeback Town” has weighed in on Alabama’s 1901 Constitution. The 155 White guys who penned the 1901 Constitution are accused of creating structures which have crippled Birmingham in 2013: a concentration of power in Montgomery, a regressive … Continue reading

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Alabama’s 1901 Constitutional Convention

Alabama This excerpt comes from Wayne Flynt’s book, Alabama In The Twentieth Century: “Delegates set the tone for their proceedings by electing a corporation lawyer from Anniston, John B. Knox, president of the convention. Knox’s presidential address left no doubt … Continue reading

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Joe Biden Visits Selma’s Magic Bridge

Alabama The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma has made the news again: “Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Director of the National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis today announced the designation of 13 new national historic landmarks, including … Continue reading

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Joshua Giddings on the South

Ohio In light of John Bonaccorsi’s comments in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates thread, I will share another excerpt from America Aflame: How The Civil War Created a Nation: “The danger to the South and its institutions was no longer abstract, as … Continue reading

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Review: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

American South Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman’s 1974 book Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery is a mythbusting revisionist tour of the reality of slavery as it existed in the American South. Everything you think you … Continue reading

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The Modernization of Slavery

CSA, 1890 AD Andrew Hamilton has another excellent article on the Confederacy at Counter-Currents. While I mostly agree with his conclusions, I want to use this article as an opportunity to set the record straight on a few enduring misconceptions … Continue reading

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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 described here as “the Golden Circle” or the “South Atlantic System.” Curtin coined the term “South … Continue reading

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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 will continue until it culminates next year in my book Shattering The Golden Circle, I want … Continue reading

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OD’s Indictment

British West Indies In preparation for writing OD’s first book, Shattering The Golden Circle: The Failure of Free Society in Dixie, Haiti, and the Caribbean, I have spent months intensely researching the rise and fall of slavery in the Caribbean … Continue reading

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