If you are near Williamstown, MA, book your train or bus ticket, brush your horse, wash your car, prepare the outfit, and come attend my lecture "Global Slavery: A Visual History" at the Clark Art Institute, on May 5, 2026, 5:30 PM, more information here lnkd.in/eFbSUxQ9 #slaveryarchive

This Monday I delivered the Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU on my book project The Power of Art: The World Black Artists Made in the Americas generously funded by @acls1919.bsky.social and @guggfellows.bsky.social Thanks Prita Meier & Kaleha Kegode for inviting me

Once unknown sitter, she has now a name: Eleonora Susette Jeremias Schultz. Portrait of Eleonora Susette, 1775. Oil on canvas. Overall: 80 × 56.2 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario. readfoyer.com/article/meet...

As a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project, I praise UN Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity, resolution is here ➡️ shorturl.at/0ueKA

Next Monday, March 30, 6:00 PM I will be at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University to give the lecture The Power of Art: The World Black Artists Made in the Americas, as part of the Silberberg Lecture Series. You can join in person or online ifa.nyu.edu/events/date/... #slaveryarchive

My book The Power of Art: The World Black Artists Made in the Americas (under contract with Cambridge University Press) is now written and revised as much as possible. Will check the last few things this weekend and then handling it to my editor and then to reviewers on Monday.

If you are in #NYC on March 30, 2026 (Monday) join me at the The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU for the lecture The Power of Art: The World Black Artists Made in the Americas, part of the Silberberg Lecture Series. Also online. More information here ifa.nyu.edu/events/date/...

A great review of Toby Green's The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle Over Life in the Seventeenth-Century West Africa @uchicagopress.bsky.social in the @thetls.bsky.social. This is the most beautiful history book of 2025 and beyond, and you must read it. #slaveryarchive

RESIST: The Power of Enslaved Artists in the Americas. Heading to Florida International University to give a lecture and workshop tomorrow #slaveryarchive #africanart

In such a great company! ❤️

América: Luís, Alice, Jesús, Charmaine and Ana Lucia. Meet the Clark Art Institute fellows of the first semester of 2026.

Already one week as a fellow at the Clark Art Institute, the best paradise ever. Overly grateful for having the opportunity to work in peace, enjoying the most beautiful nature, supported by an amazing library, museum, dear fellows and scholars, and being closely watched by a deer hosting family.

MARK your calendars! The Covid-19 Pandemic as a World-Historical Event, @britishacademy.bsky.social international conference co-convened by Toby Green et al. at the BA in London, UK, on July 2-3, 2026, program coming soon, register to attend in person or online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-covid-...

🧵1/3 Amazing! Zomadonou cult in Abomey, then Dahomey (now Bénin) on Feb 22, 1930. Zomadonou is the 1st of the 9 Tohossou (divinized “abnormal” children) of the royal family of Abomey. Filmed (11 mins here just 2 mins by Frédéric Gadmer, today at Musée Albert Kahn (France)

Africanist historian Paulo Farias (1935-2026) joined the ancestors. His legacy remain alive through his magisterial book Arabic Medieval Inscriptions from The Republic of Mali by Fontes Historiae Africanae (edited by Toby Green), available OPEN ACCESS ▶️ fonteshistoriaeafricanae.co.uk/books-availa...

Happy to see a review of our co-edited book Esclavages: Représentations visuelles et cultures matérielles (@cnrseditions.bsky.social) in @laviedesidees.bsky.social. The book is part of the 30-year anniversary of the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project laviedesidees.fr/L-esclavage-...

It's Black History Month in the United States, and today I would like to feature the work of Edmonia Lewis "an American girl of African and Indian blood" who created stunning sculptures like this marble Cleopatra. #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026

Last week at the Université Libre de Bruxelles: Dr. Liliane Umubyeyi commenting my lecture "The Past that Won't Go Away" based on my book Reparations for Slavery (Réparations, combats pour la mémoire et l’esclavage) at the conference "Colonial Legacies in Belgium" #slaveryarchive #booksky

Thank you historian @brookenewman.bsky.social for this important, needed, and beautiful book, which I am already citing in my current book manuscript. #slaveryarchive

It's Black History Month in the USA. Today we remember the late Nona Faustine, whose birthday is today. As an artist, she used her body as a monument to reckon with the slavery past of this country, and NYC, in particular. Happy birthday Nona. #BlackHistoryMonth #slaveryarchive

'The Crown’s Silence, a book published this week, details how monarchs from Queen Elizabeth I to George IV used the trade in enslaved people to boost crown revenues and defend the British empire.'

'One autumn day in 1786, an unexpected parcel arrived at Carlton House, the London residence of George, Prince of Wales. The sender was Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, a free Black man living in London, one of roughly 4,000 people of African descent in the city at the time.'

US white female historian using Black Caribbean historians (with whom she develops zero collaboration) to spread defamation via social media about the work of a woman historian who is younger than her and shining, just because she is jealous.

For my Beninese friends. Cotton spinners. Pour mes ami(e)s béninois(es). Fileuses de coton. Abomey, Dahomey, today's Republic of Benin. March 6, 1930. 6 mars 1930. Musée Départemental Albert Kahn #Africa #WestAfricanart #Africanart

“Several aspects of the social world revealed in [the Inquisition record] help us to rethink the possibilities of human relationships in society, and the ways in which people can work together for a common good, despite hailing from very different heritages and traditions”

Check Toby Green's beautiful essay on @aeon.co, edited by dear Sam Haselby, essay draws on Toby's new magnificent book The Heretic of Cacheu. For reading and listening, and to be shared widely in these difficult times we live in #slaveryarchive #Africanhistory #Africa aeon.co/essays/lesso...

Here's a sneak peek at a tiny slice of the research included in my new book, THE CROWN'S SILENCE (available for pre-order now and out tomorrow, 1/27)!!! @marinerbooks.bsky.social #booksky #slaveryarchive www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Bénin Aller-Retour: Regards sur le Dahomey de 1930. Beautiful exhibition at the Musée Départementale Albert-Kahn. Performing below, a magnificent Heviosso. #WestAfrica #RepublicofBenin #Vodun #film #exhibition

Next Thursday, January 28, I will be giving the keynote A Past that Won't Go Away" at the 3-day conference Héritages coloniaux en Belgique, in Brussels. My lecture will be in English. Full program here. QR code for registration below. actus.ulb.be/fr/actus/int... #slaveryarchive

Ce vendredi joignez-nous au Séminaire du CIRESC pour discuter mon livre Réparations. Combats pour la mémoire de l’esclavage (XVIIIe-XXIe siècle) @editionsduseuil.bsky.social 14h30 à l’EHESS, Campus Condorcet, salle 427 en personne et en visio sur Zoom cnrs.zoom.us/j/9311620051... #slaveryarchive

This salt-glazed technique ceramic jar was created by Thomas Commeraw, a formerly enslaved man who championed pottery in New York City. Born in 1772, he is one of the several artists featured in my current book project. This jar is on view at the Smithsonian NMAAHC in Washington DC #slaveryarchive

Are you a historian of the Atlantic world with a manuscript of monograph or edited volume? Consider submitting to Race in the Atlantic World (UGA Press), edited by Araujo, Green & Newman, an award-winning series with a transnational/comparative focus. More here t.co/s3qp5NLQx7

Nossa senhora das dores. Aleijadinho. ❤️

OPEN ACCESS BOOK: African Masks and Emotions (Getty Publications, 2025) by Zoë S. Strother www.getty.edu/publications...

Je serai à Paris le 23 janvier au séminaire du CIRESC « Réparations, restitutions et post-esclavage (1791-XXIème siècle) » pour présenter mon livre Réparations: Combats pour la mémoire de l'esclavage (@editionsduseuil.bsky.social), plus de détails ci-dessous esclavages.cnrs.fr/vie-scientif...

A new Bay of Pigs. This time successful, apparently. A Congressless country.

Planning to attend the biannual meeting of the African Studies Association UK in Durham in September 2026? Check the stream Global Africa: Lives, Afterlives, and the Power of Things. Send us your panel or paper proposal no later than April 30. Instructions below asauk.net/global-afric...

As January starts in just 5 days, here is a Janus head collection (from today's Angola/DRC and Nigeria now in DC, Lisbon and NYC) to mark endings and new beginnings. Happy 2026: I wish you us all health, strength, peace and beauty in 2026. ♥

Writing on Dahomey. And revisiting Pierre Verger's trajectory in the prologue. Full article here, a nice issue of Luso-Brazilian review I edited years ago. Note: my last name has no accents, and I dropped the accent of Lucia, 26 years ago. analuciaaraujo.org/araujo-pierr...

We're excited to welcome Ana Lucia Araujo, Toby Green, and Brooke Newman as the new editorial team for our Race in the Atlantic World series! Check out the blog for more on the editors and the series. https://loom.ly/j2osHxM

L'Africa e il mondo: Riannodare le storie dall'antichità al futuro co-edited by François Xavier-Fauvelle and Anne Lafont with my chapter "Le memorie nere nel mondo" is translated in Italian. Available here addeditore.it/prodotto/fra... and an excerpt is here addeditore.it/wp-content/u...

Sudan’s civil war has now displaced more than 12 million people. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/w...

I've read most of these and they are great.

Thrilled that ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS is part of the top 10 #Slaveryarchive best books of 2025 - highly recommend the other books on this list as well!

Happy holidays and happy book new year! Here is the #Slaveryarchive Most Anticipated Books 2026 list. Enjoy, and see you all in 2026 www.slaveryarchive.com/most-anticip...

Les insurrections serviles menées par José Aponte à Cuba en 1812 et par Samuel Sharpe en Jamaïque en 1831 ont toutes les deux éclaté durant les fêtes de fin d'année. Un moment qui n'était en rien un hasard, nous rappelle @araujohistorian.bsky.social dans cet article pour @us.theconversation.com.👇

"For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back." One year ago I published this article in @us.theconversation.com drawing on my book Humans in Shackles, check it out #slaveryarchive theconversation.com/for-enslaved...

I reviewed The Heretic of Cacheu (Allen Lane & University of Chicago Press) by Toby Green for Slavery and Abolition. You can download it here, read it, and go get the book #slaveryarchive www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xvlx0...