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Gad Heuman @gadheuman.bsky.social · 15d

The September issue of Slavery & Abolition is a Special Issue:

Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present
Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling & Esteban Salas

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...

Slavery & Abolition

Special Issue: Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present. Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling, and Esteban Salas. Volume 46, Issue 3 of Slavery & Abolition

www.tandfonline.com

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 16d

Long shot: any1 ever come across a #Laight family in #NewYork in the 1820s, with ties to #Haiti?

Tiny info I have: father=Henry, daughter=Maria. She's not a native writer of French, requests orange jams (!) from Modeste Pigeon in Port-au-P., is v. religious.

Thanks #skystorians 's hivemind!

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · Aug 1

Gens de #Paris: une amie cherche une chambre en #colocation ou un micro-appartement. Idéalement pas loin de la Sorbonne — pourquoi ne pas rêver ? — mais il suffit que ce soit bien connecté.
Merci de me contacter si vous avez des pistes!

#LocationParis, #ChambreParis, #ParisHousing, #LogementParis

Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · Jul 31

A toast to you and your project — virtually, with this glass!
Looking forward to plotting things together, and enjoying polenta with a Caribbean twist.

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KULTweet @kultweet.bsky.social · Jul 30

📣#Praktika des DHI Rom (Externes Angebot | Anzeige)

📅 Frist: 14. September 2025

➡️ application.dhi-roma.it?fbclid=IwZXh...

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Dr. Bethany Qualls @bethanyqualls.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social we've got a skyfeed driven #c18th feed now since blueskyfeeds host is sadly shutting down. Please go and like the 2.0 version here and let me know if you run into any issues along the way! bsky.app/profile/did:... #18c #c18

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · Jul 11

How did the staggering pensions secretly paid to nobles—& their exposure—contribute to bringing down the #Bastille & the 🇫🇷 Crown?

@benoit-carre.bsky.social takes #skystorians on a journey through neglected archives to reconstruct the fiscal system at the dawn of the #FrenchRevolution.

Benoît Carré @benoit-carre.bsky.social · Jul 10

Petite livraison surprise ce matin. Merci à l'ensemble du service communication des @puseptentrion.bsky.social pour la remise de ces premiers exemplaires !

Sortie confirmée le 14 août www.septentrion.com/fr/book/?gco...

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · Jul 9

Check out this double conference:
#Colonial Objects: "Material Culture of #Italian Colonialism"

Deadline: 5 Sep.

Venues: @bhmpi.bsky.social, Rome & Italian Academy, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, NYC

#skystorians

Nicola Camilleri @camilleriana.bsky.social · Jul 7

www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Colonial Objects: Material Culture of Italian Colonialism

Call for Papers - Colonial Objects: Material Culture of Italian Colonialism

www.hsozkult.de

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · Jun 28

🎓The Chair of #EarlyModern History at the University of Trier is hiring a doctoral researcher!🎓

NB: German is nice to have, but not required!

- Starting October 2025 for 3 years
- Deadline: July 7, 2025

#PHD

www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/or...

www.uni-trier.de

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Jun 13

#skystorians 🗃️#c18th

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jun 12

Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Portrait of Ignatius Sancho painted by Thomas Gainsborough. Sancho look to the left. He is wearing a red waistcoat with gold trimming and a dark jacket.

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Collège de France @college-de-france.fr · Jun 4

#Histoire #Haïti
🇭🇹 "Haïti, 1825 : de l’indépendance à la #dette"
📌 Colloque organisé par le Pr Antoine Lilti, titulaire de la chaire Histoire des Lumières, XVIIIe-XXIe siècle.
⏰ 12 → 14 juin 2025
👉 www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · May 21

CfP #earlycareer "Reforming #Religion, #Morality & Society in #Afro-#Eurasia: Intellectual & Cultural Traditions in Motion in the Global #18thCentury"
(by @isecs-sieds.bsky.social )
@unitrier.bsky.social, 17- 19 June, 2026
Deadline: July 1st, 2025
tinyurl.com/fjax5xm2

#skystorians #areastudies 🗃️

Reforming Religion, Morality and Society in Afro-Eurasia: Intellectual and Cultural Traditions in Motion in the Global Eighteenth Century

This Early Career Seminar of the International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) aims to explore the history of intellectual and cultural connections in Eurasia and parts of Africa and to ...

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · May 16

Interested in developing a postdoc project in #EarlyModern global religious #history & applying for a #MSCA?

A colleague at the Uni of Teramo (🇮🇹) is looking for candidates & offers supervision + support with the application process.

Feel free to get in touch
#skystorians

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · May 10

#Boyer also urged the popes to condemn #slavery in Africa, the "birthplace of Jesus."
It took many years—& many white smokes—including the one that elected #LeoXIII. 🇮🇹 media will hopefully soon acknowledge the new Pope’s complex roots, rather than pinning them to this or that 🇮🇹 region.

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · May 10

King Henry of #Haiti might say "told u so". He advocated for #Afrodescendants to access the priesthood. While the Holy See ignored his pleas, he had clergy: of mixed descent from #LatAm, & European critical of the Church's silence on #slavery.
#CreolePope

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · May 8

Come visit us! While Berlin takes days off for a long weekend, we in Brandenburg make science fun&accessible. Over 40 institutions have organised activities, below ours.
Info: potsdamertagderwissenschaften.de

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · Apr 28

This year, the government had another subtle way of trying to silence Liberation Day.
Despite the widespread obsession with the funeral of a foreign head of state, many took to the streets to honor freedom and democracy, and remember the Partigiani's fight.
#25Aprile
taz.de/Tag-der-Befr...

Tag der Befreiung in Italien: Bella ciao!

Mit Staatstrauer wollte die rechte Regierungschefin Meloni Feiern zum Tag der Befreiung unterdrücken. Doch die Antifaschisten triumphierten.

taz.de

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · Apr 22

Vor Ort in Berlin oder im Online-Streaming:
ein ganztägiges Forum zur
𝐀𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧 #𝐊𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐮𝐬.

Programm, Infos und Anmeldung :
👉 calendar.boell.de/de/event/con...

#Skystorians #Kolonialgeschichte #Erinnerung
@boell.de

Connecting the Dots Zur Aufarbeitung der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte

Die Aufarbeitung des deutschen Kolonialismus hat dank unzähliger und oft hartnäckiger zivilgesellschaftlicher Initiativen und Advocacy zunehmend öffentliches und politisches Interesse erhalten. Wissen...

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · Apr 4

Fellow #historians forever hunting for a #Postdoc: Want to try for a position within the @maxplanck.de ?

There are several institutes (not only in 🇩🇪 ) that indulge lovers of dusty manuscripts, jammed microfiche readers & poorly digitized gazettes. (Deadline: May 13)
tinyurl.com/5xtph3sc

Max Planck Postdoc Program

Launching in April 2025, the Max Planck Postdoc Program features structured application calls and a comprehensive support system for researchers.

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Internazionale @internazionale.it · Mar 17

La vita impossibile ad Haiti. Negli Stati Uniti torna il morbillo. Ascolta la nuova puntata del Mondo con Lucia Capuzzi, Elena Boille e Alessio Marchionna.

Il Mondo

Il podcast quotidiano di Internazionale. Tutte le mattine alle 6. 30 con Claudio Rossi Marcelli e Giulia Zoli. Scegli una prospettiva più ampia sul mondo. L’abbonamento a Internazionale costa 75 euro ...

www.internazionale.it

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · Mar 15

2 #postdocs for #skystorians of #earlymodern. 8 months each, @unitrier.bsky.social with @papaerc.bsky.social .
Deadline: Apr. 1

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · Mar 9

#AfroCuban #Aponte (executed in 1812 for an #antislavery rebellion) used Catholic-inspired arguments: 1)in connection with Catholic abolitionism in #Cuba 2)drawing inspiration from Christian #Ethiopia & 3) contemporary #Haiti as examples of Black sovereignty.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Visions of an Ancient Ethiopian Church and the Africanization of Catholic History in José Antonio Aponte’s Afro-Cuban Codex

In 1812, the trial of the insurgents involved in an antislavery rebellion in Cuba centred on a book of images found in the home of its author and alleged leader, José Antonio Aponte. As a unique an...

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · Mar 4

King Henry of #Haiti requested that the #HolySee recognize a 🇭🇹 Church & #BlackClergy. He challenged #slavery = spreading of faith. These (failed) negotiations:1)undermined #Eurocentric notions of #civilization; 2)bolstered claims to #African roots; 3)inspired #Afrodescendants
tinyurl.com/yx2f5mrs

‘New to Freedom but by no Means New to Faith’: Visions of an Abolitionist Black Catholic Church in Early Haiti (1808-1825)

This article reconstructs King Henry I and President Jean-Pierre Boyer’s appeals to the Holy See during Haiti’s early independence (1808-1825) to establish the significance of a Catholic national i...

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · Mar 2

Oct.1796: enslaved Africans took over the #BocaNigua plantation ( #SantoDomingo). The revolt was crushed in48h. Jesús Ruiz links this episode to transcaribbean&transimperial #Afrocatholic #royalism =ideals & practices of enslaved resilience o in the #AgeOfRevolutions

tinyurl.com/4y3a4f8x

Freedom, Faith & Sovereignty: The 1796 Boca Nigua Revolt as an Afro-Catholic Royalist Rebellion

Using a microhistorical approach to offer a novel interpretation, this article situates the 1796 Boca Nigua Revolt in Spanish Santo Domingo as an Afro-Catholic anti-slavery and freedom movement. Bu...

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · Feb 27

Popkin reconstructs the antislavery critiques of lesser-known peers of #AbbéGrégoire and keeps an eye on both the #FrenchRevolution and the #HaitianRevolution (e.g: Toussaint hashtag#Louverture's doctrine of 'throne & altar') 3/3
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Religion and Antislavery in Revolutionary France and Saint-Domingue

The movement for the abolition of slavery during the French Revolution has usually been seen as inspired more by secular arguments about natural rights than by religious concerns. Although explicit...

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