On this day in 1759, 267 years ago, the radical abolitionist Benjamin Lay passed away at age 77. A hundred years before William Lloyd Garrison, Lay called for the immediate and complete abolition of slavery worldwide, with no payments to enslavers. Let us remember him. Art by Marco Lorenzetti.

Olivier Ritz - Une histoire littéraire de la Révolution française À paraître en mars chez Gallimard

Dr Alice Mathieu-Dubois (1861-1942), the first Black woman Doctor of Médecine (MD) from French Guiana, will be honoured with her name inscribed on the Eiffel Tower 2027 onwards. Read about her in French here, numerabilis.u-paris.fr/ressources/p... #BlackHistoryMonth

Le séminaire Nineteenth-Century Worlds (W19) reprend aujourd'hui! Il y sera question des expériences du passé à travers le cas des spectacles panoramiques et des représentations de la guerre de Sécession à la fin du 19e siècle echelles.u-pariscite.fr/events/event...

The National Park Service has taken down an exhibit on slavery at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, the Interior Department said on Thursday, following President Trump’s directive to remove materials that promote “corrosive ideology.”

Happy MLK day weekend people! So happy to see this volume on Pennington by Oxford UP out, I have an essay in it. Let us take heart from the abolitionists who fought when southern slaveholders pretty much controlled the federal government in the 1850s the Presidency Senate and Supreme Court.

Mise à l'honneur dans le documentaire "L'adieu à la viande" diffusé sur @artefr.bsky.social, retrouvez la #BIUSanté Médecine à travers le portrait d'Anna Kingsford, figure de la pratique du végétarisme qui soutenait en 1880, la première thèse de l'histoire sur le sujet. 📺➡ https://swll.to/tqUQd

Carine Lounissi, Eric Schnakenbourg et Bertrand Van Ruymbeke - La révolution américaine et la naissance des États-Unis (1763-1800) À paraître en mars chez Armand Colin

How did 19th-century Black activists fight for accurate census data? Meagan Wierda traces the struggle from Shirley Chisholm (1970) to the Early Republic, examining Black New Yorkers’ petitions against the error-riddled 1840 census. Read the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/01/06/t...

I was asked by the French journal e-Rea to write about a book that was significant for my development as a historian. I chose The Slave's Cause by @profmsinha.bsky.social, which I realize will be turning ten next month. Happy anniversary to an inspiring book! journals.openedition.org/erea/21106

Mickalene Thomas, plasticienne américaine : « Je puise dans mon histoire pour célébrer la beauté du corps noir »

Book Launch: Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories (@harvardpress.bsky.social, 2025), by Miranda Spieler (AUP). Commentary: Anne Lafont (EHESS), Pierre Singaravélou (Paris 1), Jennifer Boittin (UNC). 📅⏳: Jan. 14, 18:30 🏢: Q-801 ✍: tinyurl.com/AUPSpieler ℹ️: aup.edu/news-events/...

« Le panafricanisme est aussi une forme de création esthétique » Par Ludovic Lamant

On ne peut que regretter qu’un journal, qui veut être vu comme un symbole de la liberté d’expression, s’en empare pour raviver et véhiculer une imagerie coloniale et raciste peu compatible avec l’universalisme républicain. Soutien à @rokhayadiallo.bsky.social www.ldh-france.org/une-caricatu...

LA VIE EN NOIR•E Je termine à l’instant l’écoute des 4 épisodes de « La Série Documentaire » par Sébastien THEME sur France Culture et je suis aussi émue que fière et pleine de gratitude. Si vous ne l’avez pas encore écoutée, c’est par ici que ça se passe : www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

My forthcoming book— For which I began research in 2006. Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press. Cover will be added soon. The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery

Friends!!! You know how obsessed I have become with Common Sense. Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever. I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Check out our multi-expert review of "The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920," by @profmsinha.bsky.social Manisha Sinha www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to see my book, 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South, is up on CUP's website - coming out in July 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...

Today’s Wheatley Census mystery: are there really no copies of the 1773 first edition in France? Published in London in 1773 and distributed, in part, through Methodist networks of Selina Hastings, there are copies all over the UK. But none in France?

Very grateful to share that my book Dissenting Forces: A History of Abolition and Black Thought is now out with NYU press nyupress.org/978147983661...

CFP: "AMERICAN REVOLUTION INTERNATIONAL" - Huntington Library, Nov. 6-7, 2006. With generous support from the Early Modern Studies Institute at USC, my co-conspirators & I look forward to two days of generative conversation. Travel & lodging included! Proposals due 1/10. Please spread the word! 🙏

YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS is now available in open access through JSTOR and Open Square @nyupress.bsky.social www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30... opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...

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Aujourd'hui dans Paroles d'histoire, sur les traces d'un esclave affranchi au XVIIIe siècle, avec @julydup.bsky.social pour son livre @cnrseditions.bsky.social Bonne écoute et bonne semaine ! parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...

The Trump administration ordered several National Park Service sites to take down materials related to slavery and Native Americans, including an 1863 photograph of a formerly enslaved man with scars on his back, one of the most powerful images of the Civil War era. nyti.ms/4nyyyaQ

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

ECHELLES : un nouveau laboratoire pour repenser l’histoire et les sociétés à l’échelle globale 👉 echelles.u-pariscite.fr/echelles/ech... @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social

Now available! THE RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP: 19th-CENTURY PRINT CULTURE & ANTI-SLAVERY, by Sarah Allison Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%: bit.ly/3V9ygLk @sarahdallison.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Just realized that my neighborhood's public library (formerly Bibliothèque Parmentier) has a new name--and I love it!

Jeremy D. Popkin - The First Emancipation The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France À paraître en avril aux Princeton UP

Caroline Rolland-Diamond - Rosa Parks À paraître en octobre chez Gallimard

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

If you haven't read Racecraft before, you're in for a treat. www.versobooks.com/products/227...

PUB DATE today folks happy to have written the foreward to Sylvia Frey's classic on black resistance in the south during the American Revolution, one of my favorite books in grad school. @princetonupress.bsky.social did a great job with the new edition. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

At night, Toni Morrison worked on her novels. By day, she was the first Black female senior-editor at Random House. She championed a fresh generation of authors, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes. A new book chronicles her time as an editor:

PUBLICATION DAY! _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Grateful to be included in this review of five new works on the era of abolition. Young Abolitionists is in great company! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Looking forward to the symposium "Generations and Generational Time in the US in the Long 19th Century", June 12-13, Université de Lille. Keynotes by Brigitte Fielder @brigfield.bsky.social and Dana Luciano @danaluci.bsky.social @cecille-ulille.bsky.social cecille.univ-lille.fr/detail-event...

Le 16 juin à l'Arsenal, on parlera de l'abbé Grégoire et des réseaux abolitionnistes transnationaux à l'ère des révolutions. Avec Maria Beliaeva Solomon, nous y évoquerons le devenir de Grégoire dans la *Revue des Colonies* et la culture abolitionniste étatsunienne des années 1830-1840 ⬇️

In "Foremother Love," Dana Murphy examines the importance of eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley as a foundational figure for Black feminist criticism. Check out the intro for free on our website now! #FeministTheory #BlackStudies buff.ly/4icYM7h

La nouvelle traduction de L'autobiographie de Malcolm X, aux éditions Hors d'atteinte. Préface d'Angela Davis et postface de Maboula Soumahoro. Un livre qui était devenu introuvable en français! 🤩

📖 La première histoire globale de la question des réparations de l'esclavage colonial Ana Lucia Araujo, historienne spécialiste de l’esclavage transatlantique, donne toute sa profondeur historique à un sujet très actuel, à travers les voix des peuples victimes de la traite.  En librairie 📚

What a pleasure it was to get to discuss epistolary activism & Louise Michel’s US radical networks in Paris today. Great thanks to @mroyupc.bsky.social for organizing the session & to @johnerik-h.bsky.social for being such a superb respondent!

Change of plans: John-Erik Hansson @johnerik-h.bsky.social will be J. Michelle Coghlan's respondent. Join us in person or online for a discussion of Louise Michel's reception in the United States and the transnational turn in anarchist studies!