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Caribbean Project: Review: The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
Philip D. Curtin's 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...
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The Modernization of Slavery
Chattel slavery wasn't on its deathbed in 1860 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...
View ArticleSlavery Myths: Slaves Spent Most of Their Time Picking Cotton
Antebellum South Slavery in the United States was nothing compared to the intensity of Cuban slavery where slaves commonly spent as much as 20 hours a day harvesting and processing sugarcane. Here’s...
View ArticleSlavery Myths: Life Expectancy
American South Here’s the average life expectancy at birth for American slaves in 1850 compared to the life expectancy of various “free” populations around the world: U.S. White – 40 England and Wales,...
View ArticleSlavery Myths: Southern Slavery and Human Development
American South This information comes from Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery: Life Expectancy Did you know that the typical slave born on a Southern plantation had a significantly...
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Review: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman's Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery American South Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman’s 1974 book Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro...
View ArticleChris Hayes: Fossil Fuel Industry Is Like Slavery
MSNBC Chris Hayes compares the abolition of slavery to opposition to the fossil fuel industry: Note: Fighting “Global Climate Change” through the War on Coal is one of the latest great Yankee projects.
View ArticleAntebellum Christianity and Southern Racialism
Virginia Here’s an excerpt from David Goldfield’s America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation: “Slavery had made the black man in America, in a few centuries,” Virginia jurist William C. Daniell...
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Review: Lincoln (2012)
Stephen Spielberg’s “Lincoln” (2012) District of Corruption Is there anything new to say about Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln? In my opinion, Lincoln is an excellent recruiting tool for Southern...
View ArticleScots-Irish Project: John C. Calhoun’s Family Background
South Carolina Here’s an excerpt from Karen McCarthy’s The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America: “Like Rankin, John Caldwell Calhoun was descended from the same plain stock of...
View ArticleSecond Amendment Was Passed To Protect Slavery
District of Corruption Do you remember our old friend Thom Hartmann? Note: Progressives are salivating over the possibility of repealing the Bill of Rights. They have already killed the Tenth...
View ArticleCaribbean Project: Were Georgia’s Poor Whites Exploited By Planters?
Georgia Here’s an excerpt from Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860 on the “exploitation” of poor Whites by the planter class: “Cultivating Race argues that nonelite Whites...
View ArticleSouthern Jews and Reconstruction
Dixie Here’s another fascinating excerpt from Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights on how southern Jews reacted to the demise of the Confederacy and Reconstruction: “Notwithstanding...
View ArticleJewish Confederates
CSA In the antebellum era, Jews were more likely than Gentiles to own slaves and were disproportionately involved in the slave trade. Jews went along with the racial norms of Southern society and were...
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Migrant Workers Claim Modern Slavery In Florida
In Florida, illegal aliens pick tomatoes in labor conditions worse than slavery Florida In Florida’s tomato fields, a Hispanic helot underclass toils in the burning sun to pick tomatoes for McDonald’s...
View ArticleHaiti Debate
Caribbean Sea Over at Crossroads, I am explaining in the comment section why Haiti evolved into Haiti, and why Haiti is so much worse off today than any other Caribbean country, particularly its sister...
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Caribbean Project: The Demise of Haiti’s Sugar Industry
Haitians wreck their own country … it never recovers Haiti In 1789, there were 288 sugar plantations in Haiti’s Northern Province, 314 sugar plantations in Haiti’s Western Province, and 191 sugar...
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Caribbean Project: Victor Schoelcher on Haiti
French abolitionist Victor Schoelcher travels to independent Haiti in 1841 Haiti Victor Schoelcher, the most famous French abolitionist of the 19th century, whose life work culminated in the final...
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Caribbean Project: The Barbados-South Carolina Connection
South Carolina was founded by settlers from Barbados South Carolina The Barbados-South Carolina connection has come up in a discussion at Civil War Talk. There’s a thread over there that links to an...
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Review: A History of Appalachia
Richard B. Drake, A History of Appalachia Richard B. Drake’s A History of Appalachia is an excellent introduction to the history and culture of the people of the region. The book can best be described...
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