Caribbean Project: Georgia: The Failed White Utopia
Georgia Here’s an excerpt from Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860: “The trustees envisioned Georgia as a refuge for the common man. […]
Georgia Here’s an excerpt from Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860: “The trustees envisioned Georgia as a refuge for the common man. […]
Georgia Palmetto Patriot’s copy of On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World has arrived and he has begun to […]
Georgia I can’t wait to get my new book: On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World. Note: Georgia was […]
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 […]
New World In The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex, Philip D. Curtin describes the geographic spread and extent of the slave plantation: “With […]
Eastern Caribbean Here’s another excerpt from Philip D. Curtin’s The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex which touches on the Jewish role in spreading […]
British West Indies Palmetto Patriot has an excellent article on this at SNN: it was pioneered by Dutch and Portuguese Jews in Brazil, who played […]
Great Britain Now playing … the story of William Wilberforce and British abolitionism. This is the whole two hour movie. I will write a review […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
South Carolina Here’s the link to the SNN podcast that I did this afternoon on my review of Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis. Note: […]
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 […]
BBC Watching now … the origins of the biggest sin in modern British society. Note: This is pretty silly. Europeans were obviously trying to understand […]
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 […]
Cuba In 1864, Cuban planter Cristóbal Madan rails against the free colored population – the emerging Black Undertow of Cuba – which at that time […]
Cuba This excerpt comes from Franklin W. Knight’s Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century and references the destruction of Louisiana’s sugar industry by […]
Caribbean Stephen Palmie and Francisco A. Scarano’s The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples is a sweeping 600+ page overview of the […]
Barbados The following excerpt comes from Matthew Parker’s The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies and describes the emergence of […]
Deep South Here’s an excerpt from Philip Curtin’s excellent book The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex which develops many of the themes we […]
Caribbean I’m finally closing in on the end of The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples and getting to some good stuff […]
South Carolina “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a […]
Caribbean In my review of Robert E. May’s The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire: 1854-1861, we saw how Manifest Destiny became sectionalized in the […]
Spanish West Indies OD has spent several months intensely researching the rise and fall of slavery in the British West Indies, the French West Indies, […]
Barbados The most significant event in kickstarting race-based plantation slavery and the creation of slave societies in the British and French West Indies – which […]
South Carolina Here are some excerpts from David Brion Davis’ Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World which reiterate the […]
St. Eustatius I’ve continued researching the Dutch Caribbean and have learned a few more interesting things: (1) It was the Dutch who brought the first […]
Curaçao For much of the summer, I have focused intensively on the British West Indies and the French West Indies because of their strong organic […]
Barbados In recent months, I have spent a considerable amount of time here explaining how Barbados – the original English slave society – was the […]
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