Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Part 3 Chapter 1 "The Horses and Their Riders Speak" which provides descriptions and narrations of the roles the orishas move through the various historical characters of the Haitian revolution.

Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Howard W. French's Chapter 21 in which the sums up the vital importance of controlling the Caribbean for European powers and lays out the transition to discuss the Haitian Revolution, which will be the focus of the next part of the book. 

Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Howard W. French's text Born in Blackness, Chapter 20.  His main claim is that so-called British ascension was not utterly do to its exceptionalism, but built on the backs of African labor.  The sugar plantation and later its connection to coffee and tea, which lead to a vice industry, created profits and never before seen records, and spurred the phenomena of "coffee hours", which in conjunction with newspaper circulation let to the transformation in thinking and the enlightenment.  Thus, helped many merchants use their money to pull away from the monarchical system and into a more representative system, one that protected corporate interests and privateers.

Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Henry W. French's text, Born in Blackness.  In this chapter, the author contextualizes the work that typified the enslaved person's experience on Barbados.  Specifically, he looks at how the Drax plantation fine-tuned the types of specialized work practices associated with the sugar plantation that led to high mortality rates and high profits.  He demonstrates that the power of the profits drove the planters to drive the enslaved individuals harder and that much of what we might now see as assembly line kind of work, takes its origins on the plantation.  He also highlights that the grueling form of this work and the fact that white indentured servants didn't do this kind of work, contributed to racist ideology where Blacks were understood as beasts of burden to be worked to death literally because it was cheaper to import a "new" slave that to "care" for those working the sugar mill.

Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Howard W. French's chapter 18 from Born in Blackness.  The author describes the role of Barbados and the Caribbean as the space that controlled the direction of the sugar trade as it moved to be controlled by the Dutch in the Western Hemisphere to the British. He specifically speaks to the ways in which the "Company" model under girds the credit system that fueled the quick expansion of corporatism and industry that typifies modern life.

Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Howard W. French's text.  In this chapter, he emphasizes the sheer economic power of the sugar industry and the reasons for why Portugal reeled in its empire to Brazil and Angola.  Further, he contrasts the management and bureaucratic styles of Spain and Portugal in the administration of its empires based on mining and sugar plantations, aka. black labor in black mines (ovens) and sugar mills (ovens).  Hence, the title of the chapter.

Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Howard W. French's text, Born in Blackness, Chapter 16 in which he argues that the devastating effects of viruses and disease in the New World and in conjunction with the way the Jesuits and other colonizers forced indigenous peoples to work the sugar plantations opened up a vast territory that lead to European expansion of their own cultural values, and had it not been for this opening up, he speculates, that "Old World" locked European ideals would have died out in the face of expanding Asian and Islamic cultures.

Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Howard W. French's book, Born in Blackness, Part 3 Chapter 15 "Fighting for Africans" in which his main claim is that European powers, particularly, the Dutch and the Portuguese, fought for control of sugar cane producing territories and forts, Elmina, because they recognized the sheer economic value of Black bodies to keep those plantations running and profitable.

Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Howard W. French's text, Born in Blackness, Part 3 Chapter 14 The Scramble for Africans.  His main claim is that scholarship has overlooked the foundational contribution that Black labor had the formation of the modern nation state and success of the various European empires.

Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Howard French's text, Born in Blackness. Chapter 13, "Becoming Creole", posits how, as Ira Berlin calls them, the "charter generation", is a unique mixing of people that transformed as much as was transformed by the Circum-Atlantic.  Also, he highlights at the end, that even the racial mixing, however, still left many Blacks in a marginal spaces, as their color became a clear marker that stood in the way of complete cultural assimilation.