The most beautiful history book of the past many years, The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port (Penguin Allen Lane) by Toby Green will be out in paperback in the UK next week. Get your copy #slaveryarchive www.penguin.co.uk/books/453870...

Stories of enslaved Africans return to Guyana through ‘Voices’ archive, check these news about this new amazing project by historian Diana Paton, Randy Browne and other dear historians newsroom.gy/2026/06/10/s... #slaveryarchive

Esclavage : des demandes de réparations en souffrance depuis le XVIIIe siècle Par @sabrinakassa.bsky.social‬

Pour savoir plus sur l'histoire des réparations pour l'esclavage et les cas commentés dans la tribune, voici mon livre Réparations: Combats pour la mémoire de l'esclavage (XVIIIe-XXIe siècle) publié chez @editionsduseuil.bsky.social en 2025

Lors du 25e anniversaire de la Loi Taubira, j'ai écris une tribune en français dans le journal français Le Monde à propos des réparations pour l'esclavage et la colonisation, notamment Haïti et l'Afrique occidentale. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl... #slaveryarchive

The Early Modern World of a West African Woman: A new striking review of Toby Green's stunning The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle Over Life in Seventeenth Century West Africa (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025) by dear historian Jody Benjamin in Current History #slaveryarchive

"History at the End of History: Inequality and Discourse in the Age of Reimperialism" Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture by historian Toby Green at Birkbeck University of London on June 18, 2026, 18:00, more information and registration here ⬇️ www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... #slaveryarchive

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-...

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-...

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...

Congratulations to #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative International Advisory board member @mbarcia24.bsky.social for the publication of his new book Pirate Imperialism: Trade, Abolition, and Global Suppression of Maritime Raiding 1825-1870 @yalepress.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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...

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!

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

Congratulations to our dear Alex Gil, Department of Spanish and Portuguese at @yale, who received an honorable mention for the Lois Roth Award for Translation of a Literary Work for his translation of Aimé Césaire’s . . . . . . And the Dogs Were Silent #slaveryarchive

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

Congratulations to our advisory board member Jessica Marie Johnson and her fantastic team, whose project Keywords for Black Louisiana won this amazing award #slaveryarchive

Congratulations to historian Diana Paton (@dianapaton.bsky.social), member of our advisory board, who is leading a major Project to map enslaved people’s testimony at the University of Edinburgh. Check also the postdoc fellowship opportunity #slaveryarchive www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...

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

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...

THE CROWN’S SILENCE: “An engrossing tale … An account of powerful people behaving badly that’s hard to resist.” —Kirkus reviews. Read the full review here: 👇 www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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...

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/

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/

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...

Two to go! Join us at the #Slaveryarchive Book Club to discuss The Heretic of Cacheu (U. of Chicago Press) by Toby Green on Oct. 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...

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

I love seeing the first 5 star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader reviews of my upcoming book, THE CROWN'S SILENCE (Mariner, Jan. 2026), on Netgalley! Pre-order your copy wherever books are sold. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

This was such a delight! Thinking about family and its (il)legibility as essential to politics. Thank you @eicathomefinn.bsky.social for a marvellous paper and @jhowesuk.bsky.social for wonderful response.

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...

A big congratulations is in order for author Randy M. Browne—his book THE DRIVER'S STORY has just won the Slavery Archive Book Prize, granted by the #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative (@slaveryarchive.bsky.social)! bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs

I am so excited to share this news!

Keeping our commitment to recognize the outstanding book on the history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, we are delighted to announce The Driver’s Story by historian @randybrowne.bsky.social as the Winner of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024 www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...

Sat., Oct. 4, at 2:00 pm EDT it will be my pleasure to speak about my new book *Freedom Ship* with the #slaveryarchive Book Club. Please register through the link below and join us! Warm thanks to @araujohistorian.bsky.social and Alex Gil for organizing the event. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I'm so honored that THE DRIVER'S STORY is a finalist for the @slaveryarchive.bsky.social Book Prize! Congrats to the other finalists, @daviddoddington.bsky.social and @profjennyshaw.bsky.social. www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...

More well-deserved accolades for @daviddoddington.bsky.social whose book is a finalist for the @slaveryarchive.bsky.social book prize--"is an extraordinary study shedding new light on old age and aging in the antebellum US South." @universitypress.cambridge.org offers our big congratulations!

Congratulations to author @randybrowne.bsky.social, whose groundbreaking book THE DRIVER'S STORY is a finalist for the Slavery Archive Book Prize, granted by the #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative (@slaveryarchive.bsky.social)! bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs

Thank you @slaveryarchive.bsky.social! This is very unexpected - I had no idea!

The Women Who Ran Senegambia: How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town. An excerpt from The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green at History News Network #slaveryarchive www.hnn.us/article/here...

Connecting Atlantic histories: The Heretic of Cacheu (UK edition) by historian Toby Green delivered today to Gustavo Monteiro at the Biblioteca Nacional de Cabo Verde, Praia, Santiago, Cabo Verde. Bonus: Amilcar Cabral memorial #slaveryarchive

We are happy to announce the three finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024! The winner will be announced at the end of September. To know more about the three finalists, visit our website www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...

📚💙 #booksky: 🔥 Just dropped on NetGalley: THE CROWN'S SILENCE. For the first time, the British monarchy's deep, centuries-long ties to the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery are exposed in forensic detail. Request now! #TheCrownsSilence #NetGalley www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

#slaveryarchive is the jam!

Don't miss historian Vincent Brown ( @professorvbrown.bsky.social) talk in this important new initiative. Deep Dive Session: The Digital is Black: Reparative Methods for Storytelling for the History for our Future Learning Network. #slaveryarchive www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

FIVE YEARS of #Slaveryarchive Book Club! More than ever, it's time to read, assign, discuss, share, buy, and gift books that tell the history of slavery in the Americas (and elsewhere) The book club has been doing this for full five years. Join us www.slaveryarchive.com/book-club/20...

Join the #Slaveryarchive Book Club on September 13 to discuss the great new collection A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking with general editor Benjamin Lawrance and the volume editors. Register here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We are looking forward to announcing the finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize this coming week. Bear with us!

Call for Papers! 🧵 The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz) Abstract Deadline: Sept 19 www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past t.co/vSYV2VODjv and and Museums and Atlantic Slavery t.co/TMiiHwbSMQ

Black people across the Americas have been demanding REPARATIONS for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade since the eighteenth century. Telling the history of slavery in museums is one way of repairing these past atrocities, which is why I wrote this book #slaveryarchive