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Brooke Newman
30 days ago
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.
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Brooke Newman
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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
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www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...
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The British Crown Enslaved Thousands at the Height of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. New Research Reveals Their Stories
A leading historian examines how the monarchy not only tolerated slavery but also administered it, profited from it and sanctioned its cruelties
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-british-crown-enslaved-thousands-at-the-height-of-the-trans-atlantic-slave-trade-new-research-reveals-their-stories-180988005/
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Ana Lucia Araujo
29 days ago
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
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#Africanhistory
#Africa
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Lessons in pluralism from a 17th-century African town | Aeon Essays
The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women)
https://aeon.co/essays/lessons-in-pluralism-from-a-17th-century-african-town
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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
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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...
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Katharine Gerbner
2 months ago
Thrilled that ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS is part of the top 10
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best books of 2025 - highly recommend the other books on this list as well!
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Cecelia Cancellaro
2 months ago
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
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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
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In this holiday season, we keep reading! This is the
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10 Best Books 2025 list
www.slaveryarchive.com/10-best-book...
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Congratulations to our advisory board member Jessica Marie Johnson and her fantastic team, whose project Keywords for Black Louisiana won this amazing award
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3 months ago
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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
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Project to map enslaved people’s testimony | News | The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh historians will investigate slavery and the law in British Guiana, now Guyana, in a new three year-long project.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/project-to-map-enslaved-peoples-testimony
3 months ago
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Europe & the World at the IHR
3 months ago
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
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Ana Lucia Araujo
4 months ago
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!
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Brooke Newman
4 months ago
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...
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THE CROWN'S SILENCE | Kirkus Reviews
Royals profited handsomely from slavery, says this account.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/brooke-n-n-newman/the-crowns-silence-2/
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Ana Lucia Araujo
4 months ago
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
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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/
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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/
5 months ago
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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...
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Alex Gil
5 months ago
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...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: #Slaveryarchive Book Club with Toby Green (King's College London). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Join us to discuss The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a 17th Century West African Port (Penguin/Allen Lane, 2025) by Toby Green (King's College London) Get the book here and use code UCPNE...
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kfu-sqDIpGtIYsXVWMUdLLkIgYSwE0VDT
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Ana Lucia Araujo
5 months ago
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
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Brooke Newman
5 months ago
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...
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Europe & the World at the IHR
5 months ago
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.
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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...
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Penn Press
5 months ago
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
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bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs
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The Driver’s Story – Penn Press
The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve thei...
https://bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs
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Randy Browne
5 months ago
I am so excited to share this news!
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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...
5 months ago
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Marcus Rediker
5 months ago
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.
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Randy Browne
6 months ago
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...
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Cecelia Cancellaro
6 months ago
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!
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Penn Press
5 months ago
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
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The Driver’s Story – Penn Press
The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve thei...
https://bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs
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Jenny Shaw
5 months ago
Thank you
@slaveryarchive.bsky.social
! This is very unexpected - I had no idea!
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Ana Lucia Araujo
5 months ago
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
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The Women Who Ran Senegambia
How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town.
https://www.hnn.us/article/heretic-of-cacheu
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Ana Lucia Araujo
5 months ago
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
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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
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Brooke Newman
6 months ago
📚💙
#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
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www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
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The Crown's Silence
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/714923
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6 months ago
#slaveryarchive
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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.
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DEEP DIVE:THE DIGITAL IS BLACK 2025 Professor Vincent Brown with Fiona Compton and Dr Renee Landell:
YouTube video by HOUSE OF DREAD Studio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=7vuMzCFrCiA&ab_channel=HOUSEOFDREADStudio
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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...
6 months ago
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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...
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We are looking forward to announcing the finalists of the
#Slaveryarchive
Book Prize this coming week. Bear with us!
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Alondra Nelson
6 months ago
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...
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Public Science
Call for Papers Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceThe Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/publicscience
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Ana Lucia Araujo
6 months ago
Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past
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and and Museums and Atlantic Slavery
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https://www.routledge.com/Museums-and-Atlantic-Slavery/Araujo/p/book/9780367530211
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Ana Lucia Araujo
6 months ago
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
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Ana Lucia Araujo
6 months ago
My book Humans in Shackles telling how BAD SLAVERY WAS in the Americas, including in the United States is 46% OFF on Amazon. Not many people know this story, which is why we have to keep telling it in museums, books, and the classroom.
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Citizen.Coping
6 months ago
Teaching the history of the African diaspora and Atlantic slavery in 2025? "Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" by
@araujohistorian.bsky.social
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
Get 30% off by using code UCPNEW at check out
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Brooke Newman
6 months ago
Congratulations to the 2025 MAAH Stone Book Award shortlist authors—esp the prolific
@araujohistorian.bsky.social
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Ana Lucia Araujo
6 months ago
#Slaveryarchive
Book Club: Transatlantic Bondage: A pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico edited by Lissette Acosta Corniel and a group of amazing historians. Check our yesterday's discussion
www.youtube.com/live/uxrN5Gg...
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#Slaveryarchive book club: Transatlantic Bondage edited by Lissette Acosta Corniel
YouTube video by #Slaveryarchive Book Club
https://www.youtube.com/live/uxrN5GgrrPs?si=bNnFDPO0WFMH9igm
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MAAH Stone Book Award
6 months ago
2/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: Covering more than 300 years, Ana Lucia Araujo's 'Humans in Shackles' grapples with history by foregrounding the lived experience of enslaved people in tracing the long, complex history of slavery in the Americas.
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Ana Lucia Araujo
6 months ago
Donald Trump s’en prend aux musées sur la question de l’esclavage. J'ai parlé à l'émission Tout Terrain chez
@iciradiocanada.bsky.social
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ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...
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Donald Trump s’en prend aux musées sur la question de l’esclavage | OHdio | Radio-Canada
Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission Tout terrain : Donald Trump s’en prend aux musées sur la question de l’esclavage
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/tout-terrain/segments/rattrapage/2157733/offensive-trump-contre-institutions-culturelles-ana-lucia-araujo
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Ana Lucia Araujo
7 months ago
Green's stunning Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa will be out in the USA on October 6, pre-order with 30 % OFF with UCPNEW code at
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
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