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Ana Lucia Araujo
@araujohistorian.bsky.social
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Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org

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Ana Lucia Araujo is an American historian, art historian, author, and professor of history at Howard University. She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. Her scholarship focuses on the transnational history, public memory, visual culture, and heritage of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. .. more

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 1d
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! ❤️

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Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social · 3d
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...
Our 51 Favorite Books of 2025 | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 3d
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

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 9d
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?

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 9d
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

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 14d
"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."

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 14d
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...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 14d
Thank you so much for sharing it!

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 15d
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
Way down south: slavery far beyond the United States | Aeon Essays
Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?
aeon.co

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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 15d
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
Way down south: slavery far beyond the United States | Aeon Essays
Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?
buff.ly

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 15d
Thank you! I am still not even used to Bluesky, am lazy to use hashtags, etc!

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 15d
"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

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 16d
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...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 16d
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

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 22d
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!
Flyer for UGA’s Race in the Atlantic World book series

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 23d
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!

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 23d
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...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Oct 25
Starting in 10 minutes! t.co/e9ELJ3uaiZ

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Oct 24
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...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Oct 24
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

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Oct 23
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...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Oct 21
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

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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · Oct 17
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.
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Exceeding the Field of Vision: Women of Land Art
This session will explore women’s contributions to 1960s Land art, highlighting their innovative works and reshaping its history beyond the male-dominated narrative.
www.history.ac.uk

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · Oct 16
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.
Poster for the book club event with Toby Green's The Heretic of Cacheu

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Oct 16
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

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Oct 14
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

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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · Oct 7
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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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Oct 7
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

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Oct 6
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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Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique EHNE @ehne.fr · Oct 6
📰Nous remercions @lemonde.fr pour cette adaptation de la nouvelle saison de la série Chambre noire, consacrée à la guerre du #Cameroun.
🎥7 épisodes en vidéo dans lesquels des historiens analysent des archives photographiques : ehne.fr/fr/histoire-...

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