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...

We are so happy for @chloeireton.bsky.social and Shantel George who are both included in @slaveryarchive.bsky.social's Ten Best Books of 2025! Much deserved recognition for these stellar books. @universitypress.cambridge.org

To all of you at Brown and Providence, sending my love and solidarity.

In this holiday season, we keep reading! This is the #Slaveryarchive 10 Best Books 2025 list www.slaveryarchive.com/10-best-book...

Check my new OPEN ACCESS chapter "Healing the Wounds of the Past: The Long History of Demands of Reparations for Slavery" in New Perspectives on Healing Collective TraumaTowards Social Justice and Communal Well-Being edited by dear Scherto Gil #slaveryarchive www.routledge.com/New-Perspect...

Being able to see and write about beautiful things designed and created nearly two centuries ago by people who spent their lives in the most tragic and harrowing conditions fills my soul in these dark days of winter, and it also brings me some hope. #slaveryarchive

❤️ Thank you!

Ce matin les Prix FETKANN dévoilés au Café de Flore à Paris: mon Réparations: Combats pour la mémoire de l'esclavage chez @editionsduseuil.bsky.social a reçu la mention spéciale du jury dans la catégorie recherche, j'aimerais tellement y être. Merci @fondationme.bsky.social pour les photos! ❤️

Thrilling to find THE TROUBLE OF COLOR among the 51 faves for 2025 over at the Washington Independent Review of Books! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our...

My book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery @uchicagopress.bsky.social and The Heretic of Cacheu (AllenLaneBooks UK edition) by Toby Green at @blackwells.bsky.social at Oxford, UK. Picture taken by a dear friend historian, this past weekend. #slaveryarchive

HUGELY looking forward to @araujohistorian.bsky.social’s paper in a week’s time! (So much so that we’re going to ignore that that means *IT’S DECEMBER IN A WEEK’S TIME*) Join us in lovely Bloomsbury or on zoom! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century 📌 1 Dec 2025 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & London #History #Africa #18thCentury Why not just use the link thumbnail? www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I will be in London to present the paper "Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century" at the @ihreurope1500.bsky.social on Dec 1, 17h30 (London time) register here to join us in person or online www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #slaveryarchive

"Historians estimate that Brazil alone imported approximately 4.8M enslaved men, women and children, representing nearly half of the 10.5M enslaved Africans who disembarked alive in the Americas between 1501 and 1866. … 388,000 enslaved Africans who disembarked in the US during the same period."

Check my new essay "The deepest South: Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?" just published in @aeon.co Many thanks to historian Sam Haselby, who beautifully edited it #slaveryarchive aeon.co/essays/way-d...

Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the US. In today’s essay, the historian @araujohistorian.bsky.social explores its foundational role across the Americas and the enduring importance of understanding why race is historical buff.ly/zBcptu8

Good piece at @aeon.co by @araujohistorian.bsky.social on slavery in Latin America, particularly Brazil, and how racial identity differs there from Anglo-American framings

"Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" by Ana Lucia Araujo "Based on 20 years of research, this book serves as a comprehensive history and expands that history by providing a truly transnational account that emphasizes the central role of Brazil…" @uchicagopress.bsky.social #History

Holidays are here. History books about the truth of American history with discounts are the best gifts in these challenging times. Check my book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery, 680 pages, and 40 % with code WELCOME 40 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Si vous êtes en Belgique à la fin janvier, joignez-nous pour le colloque international "Héritages coloniaux en Belgique," dont je ferai une des conférences d'ouverture. Il faut s'inscrire ci-dessous lnkd.in/emgw49tz

Excited to join historians @araujohistorian.bsky.social Ana Lucia Araujo and Toby Green as the new series editors of UGA’s fantastic, long-running “Race in the Atlantic World” Series. Please spread the word. We’ve expanded the geographical & chronological scope w/RAW 2.0 & welcome your proposals!

Delighted to be one of the new editors of Race in the Atlantic World the 18-year-old rock-solid series of @ugapress.bsky.social. Am in great company with historians Toby Green and @brookenewman.bsky.social. The series expanded its scope across time and space. Bring on the proposals!

On November 15 (SATURDAY), 2:00 PM EST, the #Slaveryarchive Book Club will host historian Roquinaldo Ferreira who will be discussing his book Worlds of Unfreedom: West Central Africa in the Era of Global Abolition (Princeton University Press, 2025). Register now! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Starting in 10 minutes! t.co/e9ELJ3uaiZ

Join the #Slaveryarchive Book Club tomorrow, October 25, Saturday, 2:00 PM EST to discuss historian Toby Green's new book The Heretic of Cacheu, register here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Heureuse de voir mon livre Réparations: Combats pour la mémoire de l'esclavage (@editionsduseuil.bsky.social) dans L'Histoire (@maglhistoire.bsky.social) du mois de novembre #slaveryarchive

SPOILER. Proof pages of my review of The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green to be published in Slavery & Abolition. Curious about the book? Join Toby, @elotroalex.bsky.social and myself at the #Slaveryarchive book club this SAT 2:00 PM EST to discuss the book. Register ⬇️ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

What a great surprise to find in my office @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social's new beautiful and most anticipated book Heiress: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery. Looking very much forward to reading it ! #slaveryarchive

Our next seminar in the autumn series will be on 23 October, with Leigh Arnold's paper, 'Exceeding the Field of Vision: Women of Land Art'. Our seminars are free and open to all. @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Join @araujohistorian.bsky.social and I, and the rest of the #slaveryarchive book club, 10 days from now, Oct. 25, for a conversation with Atlantic historian Toby Green, to discuss his new book The Heretic of Cacheu.

At the conference "Europe After Decolonisation" at the Universitat Konstanz, German. Will present my paper, "Can Art Repair the Irreparable?" today. Program below www.uni-konstanz.de/en/post-euro... #slaveryarchive

Happy US #pubday The Heretic of Cacheu (@UChicagoPress) by Toby Green. The #Slaveryarchive Book Club will discuss the book on October 25, register HERE us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... and get the book here with 30% discount with code UCPNEW at check out press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Submissions for the 2025 #Slaveryarchive Book Prize are open until February 15, 2026. Check the call in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese and submit your book www.slaveryarchive.com/book-prize/

One more time thank you @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social Award jurors and all those who attended last week moving ceremony celebrating our books. You can watch all the emotion here www.maahstonebookaward.org #slaveryarchive

As Chair of the 2025 @clahistorians.bsky.social Bolton-Johnson Prize I congratulate historians Brooke Larson & @thehistoriann.bsky.social CO-WINNERS with The Lettered Indian and Piracy & the Making of the Spanish Pacific World. Was a pleasure to work with jurors Jonathan Ablard & Kaysha Corinealdi

Merci à @ehne.fr et @lemonde.fr pour cette mise en lumière de la guerre du #Cameroun - A lire 🤓🤓👇👇@elarabertho.bsky.social @elaurentin.bsky.social @araujohistorian.bsky.social @notabenemovies.bsky.social @andreloez.bsky.social @aphg.bsky.social @rheinze.bsky.social @pierrehaski.bsky.social

Join us in Boston this Thursday, October 9, for the @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social for a free signed copy of Humans in Shackles and a hug. Reception at 5:30pm/Award Presentations at 6:30pm at the African Meeting House, 46 Joy Street, Boston, MA. Register at www.maahstonebookaward.org

EUROPE after #Decolonisation in Kontanz, Germany, on October 16-18, join me, Diagne, Borutta, Burbank, Cooper, Dhondt, Etkind, Fleishman, Harrison, Hoffmann, Koschorke, Leuffen, Mahlke, Markus Messling, Motadel, Táíwò and Wenzel. Register here www.uni-konstanz.de/en/post-euro...

The talk I gave yesterday in the #slaveryarchive Book Club series, about my new work *Freedom Ship*, is now available on Youtube. Thanks to @araujohistorian.bsky.social and @elotroalex.bsky.social for the invitation and for organizing the event. www.youtube.com/live/H17ToyM...

We had a wonderful time at the #Slaveryarchive Book Club today hosting dear historian @marcusrediker.bsky.social speaking about his new book Freedom Ship, it reminds us why we historians do this work, check it out the conversation on YouTube and get the book www.youtube.com/live/H17ToyM...