"The Kingdom of Dahomey became a major power in the Atlantic slave trade..."

"... with slaves supplied through raids of surrounding areas .  Oyo would sometimes put pressure on Dahomey to decrease their slave tra...

"Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry."

Think hard. It doesn't really matter — does it? — that this is today's sentence from "The Great Gatsby," another dutiful p...

"By 1666 at least 12,000 white smallholders had been bought out, died," or left Barbados.

"Many of the remaining whites were increasingly poor. By 1680 there were seventeen slaves for every indentured servant. By 1700, there ...

Archaic People, Saladoid people, Arawaks, Caribs...

I'm trying to read the "History of" page for Antigua and Barbuda , which is a single country. It's today's country as ...

The History of Abkhazia.

"According to The Georgian Chronicles, the first inhabitants of what is now Abkhazia and the whole western Georgia were Egrosians, the ...

"American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western."

"It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them." Spike Lee, being noble , perhaps, but also h...

Dana Loesch sues to escape from the "indentured servitude" that is Breitbart.com.

"The internal disputes roiling the website founded by the late conservative provocateur Andrew Breitbart broke out into the open Friday...

"What lessons could today's leaders learn from [Lincoln]?"

A question posed to University of Wisconsin history prof Stephen Kantrowitz (on the occasion of the release of the Spielberg movie "Li...

"The Wisconsin delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa were treated like royalty."

"They were given a prime location on the convention floor, right up front and to the right of the stage. The delegates from Wisconsin a...

"Thomas Jefferson's Crème Brûlée..."

"... How a Founding Father and His Slave James Hemings Introduced French Cuisine to America." A new book , by Thomas J. Craughwell...

The Madness of Madison.

State Street, today: ME (reading aloud, to my companion): Walker is not above the law and will go to prison. CHALKING MAN (to me): It's ...

Why did the NYT publish a very long article on the white people in Michelle Obama's ancestry?

There's the funny ( Star-Trek -evoking) name Tribble , and they could forefront some old lady in Georgia who acknowledges that it's ...

"Will a Mormon president treat constitutional clauses as divine injunctions?"

"If so, what grounds will we non-Mormons have for interpreting with secular arguments what is presented as God’s will? For that matter,...

"The book is helping white folks who otherwise would have simply dismissed that idea understand why so many people believe it."

The idea is that the war on drugs is "a system of racial control comparable to slavery and Jim Crow." ( Here 's the book.)

Have you heard about the Online Underground-high-speed Railroad System or OURS and the Fugitive Non-Human Commodity Act?

If so, you've been reading the Isthmus forum discussion that began with Jason Joyce asking what Rick Santorum could have meant by the ...

"We cannot afford to indulge this madness."

A headline I read at Memeorandum , and clicked on without knowing the actual subject. In the fraction of a second while I waited for the web...

"Baad involves giving a young woman, often a child, into slavery and forced marriage."

"It is largely hidden because the girls are given to compensate for 'shameful' crimes like murder, adultery and elopement.......

Herman Cain nailed "Meet the Press."

In my opinion, and I was quite critical of Cain after the last debate. Here 's the transcript and video. I'll add a few comments to...

Eugene Volokh finds evidence that Asians are now white.

On the occasion of Gov. Nikki Haley identifying herself as white (when her ancestors come from India), he says: "I first noticed this e...

The NYT goes after Clarence Thomas over "an unusual, and ethically sensitive, friendship."

It's a long article , and you have to comb through it to try to grasp what we're supposed to think Justice Thomas did wrong. I'd...