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Ana Lucia Araujo

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Historian. Check my new book: Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (University of Chicago Press, 2024) https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo229867701.html #slaveryarchive

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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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

📰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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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 4d

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...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to you dear Marcus, it was a wonderful talk and this is such a beautiful book!

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 5d

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...

#Slaveryarchive Book Club with Marcus Rediker (University of Pittsburg)

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 6d

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...

#Slaveryarchive Book Club with Marcus Rediker (University of Pittsburg)

YouTube video by #Slaveryarchive Book Club

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 6d

TOMORROW, SUNDAY October 5, 12:00 PM EST, I will moderate the Toyin Falola Interviews "Global Africa, Women, and Slavery: A Conversation with Toby Green," with several dear scholars of Africa. Join us! Register here tfinterviews.com/post/toby-gr...

Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 6d

Join the #Slaveryarchive Book Club today at 2:00 PM EST to discuss Freedom Ship (Viking) by dear historian Marcus Rediker, register here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 6d

After publishing several books on the history of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, this Thursday I will get my VERY FIRST book award as a finalist of the @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social I leave here some words of gratitude to mark this milestone in my life. #slaveryarchive

Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you Literal Magazine for publishing an extract of my book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social 2024 ) #slaveryarchive literalmagazine.com/humans-in-sh...

Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery - Literal Magazine

Spanish Americas and the West Indies With the rise of the Atlantic slave trade, Black enslaved and freedwomen sold goods in the streets and markets of various urban areas in the Americas as well. Sti...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 7d

We are looking forward to tomorrow's #Slaveryarchive Book Club with dear historian Marcus Rediker on his great new book Freedom Ship. This is a rare opportunity to be in conversation with the world-class historian of the Atlantic slave trade. REGISTER HERE us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 7d

My big congratulations to Randy Browne whose great book won the 2024 #Slaveryarchive Book Prize. We were 3 scholars of slavery in the committee, 2 of us are historians. Randy is a historian committed with the field of slavery history, with a book on Caribbean slavery #slaveryarchive

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 7d

Dans ce nouvel épisode du Podcast Dans la bibliothèque du Paris noir, en collaboration avec la FME, Kévi Donat reçoit l’historienne Ana Lucia Araujo, professeure titulaire à l’Université Howard (Washington DC), pour parler de son livre Réparations, publié récemment en français aux éditions du Seuil.

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Reposted by Anna O. Law, Ana Lucia Araújo, Karin Wulf

#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 7d

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...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 8d

Un grand merci à la @fondationme.bsky.social
et Kevin Donat pour ce podcast/entretien sur mon livre Réparations: Combats pour la mémoire de l'esclavage (XVIIIe-XXIe siècle) publié chez @editionsduseuil.bsky.social
t.co/93Nnn1IhD6 #slaveryarchive

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

Check the 2025-26 program of the series The Disappeared of History led by Brad Evans and Chantal Meza at the University of Bath. I am excited to be one of the speakers next May 2026. www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-in...

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 9d

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...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 10d

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...

The Women Who Ran Senegambia

How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town.

www.hnn.us

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 13d

NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social

Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Europe and the world, 1500-1800, IHR seminar, Mondays, 17:30.
6 October: Margot Finn: At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule
10 November: Sari Nauman: Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the Early Modern Baltic Sea
17 November Roger Lee Jesus: Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia
1 December: Ana Lucia Araujo: Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century

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

My Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (University of Chicago Press) and Toby Green’s The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port (Allen Lane UK edition) made it to the beautiful library of Universdade de Cabo Verde this week. #slaveryarchive

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

In Cabo Verde, for the conference of the Association of African Studies of Africa. Opening ceremony with address of President of Cape Verde José Maria Pereira Neves, and ASA of Africa President Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula and keynotes by economist Carlos Lopes and Cristina Duarte.

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 19d

Happy to announce that my book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery was translated in Portuguese and will be published in Brazil by the amazing Edições SESC in 2026. Não tá morto quem peleia! 😆 #slaveryarchive

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 20d

We are starting now, you can still register and enter us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: #Slaveryarchive book club with Julia Gaffield (College of William and Mary). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...

Join us this afternoon to discuss I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom (Yale University Press, 2025) by Julia Gaffield (College of William and Mary). A moving...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you historian David Eltis, a giant in the field, who reviewed my book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery and wasn't very nasty #slaveryarchive brill.com/view/journal...

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

Check this excerpt of historian Keisha N. Blain, Ph.D.'s new book Without Fear on Foreign Policy foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/19/p...

The Forgotten Fight for ‘Darker Peoples’ at the Paris Peace Conference

How an alliance between Black American women and Japanese delegates paved the way for modern human rights.

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

EUROPE after #Decolonisation. If you are near Konstanz, Germany, join me and other dear scholars on October 16-18, 2025. #slaveryarchive

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

TRUTH. Honored to receive the Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator award from IFPE for my work on slavery and its legacies. As someone who lived in Porto Alegre & went through psychoanalysis young, this warms my heart. IFPE conference in DC on Nov 9: ifpe.org/2025-confere...

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

Imperdível! Como as mulheres moldaram a história da escravidão e da África global? Toby Green e seis especialistas conversam sobre África, diáspora e os legados do tráfico atlântico. Domingo, 5 de outubro, 13h de Brasília
Inscreva-se: www.tfinterviews.com/post/toby-gr...

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