ERC Project Atlantic Exiles
@atlanticexiles.bsky.social
ERC project based at @unituebingen.bsky.social | Refugees and Revolution in the Atlantic World (1770s-1820s) | https://uni-tuebingen.de/atlantic-exiles
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Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s
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📢New publication!! Out #openaccess FirstView: "Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s," by Jan C. Jansen in Law and History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social. Access here doi.org/10.1017/S073.... Short summary in 🧵
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CFP: Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158675
Wien, 28.09.2026-01.10.2026, University of Tübingen; University of Gothenburg; University of Vienna; American Historical Association, Bewerbungsschluss: 20.12.2025
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158675
Wien, 28.09.2026-01.10.2026, University of Tübingen; University of Gothenburg; University of Vienna; American Historical Association, Bewerbungsschluss: 20.12.2025
www.hsozkult.de
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
CFP: Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158675
Wien, 28.09.2026-01.10.2026, University of Tübingen; University of Gothenburg; University of Vienna; American Historical Association, Bewerbungsschluss: 20.12.2025
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158675
Wien, 28.09.2026-01.10.2026, University of Tübingen; University of Gothenburg; University of Vienna; American Historical Association, Bewerbungsschluss: 20.12.2025
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🏅 Winner: Ana Vergara Sierra
“The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos during the War of Independence (1806–1833)”
📖 Read here: bit.ly/3PJSokH
“The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos during the War of Independence (1806–1833)”
📖 Read here: bit.ly/3PJSokH
The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos During the War of Independence (1806–1833) | The Americas | Cambridge Core
The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos During the War of Independence (1806–1833) - Volume 81 Issue 3
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October 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🏅 Winner: Ana Vergara Sierra
“The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos during the War of Independence (1806–1833)”
📖 Read here: bit.ly/3PJSokH
“The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos during the War of Independence (1806–1833)”
📖 Read here: bit.ly/3PJSokH
📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:
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Pour les nouveaux abonnés et comme j’ai changé de poste (Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland). Je suis historien des Caraïbes et de l’Amérique du Nord à la charnière des XVIIIᵉ et XIXᵉ siècles, postdoctorant à l'@ehess.fr – UMR @mondesamericains.ehess.fr – via une bourse européenne Marie S. Curie.
October 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Pour les nouveaux abonnés et comme j’ai changé de poste (Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland). Je suis historien des Caraïbes et de l’Amérique du Nord à la charnière des XVIIIᵉ et XIXᵉ siècles, postdoctorant à l'@ehess.fr – UMR @mondesamericains.ehess.fr – via une bourse européenne Marie S. Curie.
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October’s ODNB update has four new articles on historic figures in Britain of African or part-African descent, including Yorke, Lecesne, Lewis, and Durham. Plus a survey of the sitters in the painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention.
Read the stories on #ODNB: oxford.ly/46VduWJ
Read the stories on #ODNB: oxford.ly/46VduWJ
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
October’s ODNB update has four new articles on historic figures in Britain of African or part-African descent, including Yorke, Lecesne, Lewis, and Durham. Plus a survey of the sitters in the painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention.
Read the stories on #ODNB: oxford.ly/46VduWJ
Read the stories on #ODNB: oxford.ly/46VduWJ
New in the #ODNB: Louis Celeste Lecesne, Haitian-Jamaican merchant, activist and deportation victim. doi.org/10.1093/odnb...
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
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October 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
New in the #ODNB: Louis Celeste Lecesne, Haitian-Jamaican merchant, activist and deportation victim. doi.org/10.1093/odnb...
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
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Feliz de ver, por fin, este texto publicado. Fue uno de mis primeros acercamientos al tema de los emigrados de las guerra de Independencia cuando estaba haciendo mi doctorado.
September 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Feliz de ver, por fin, este texto publicado. Fue uno de mis primeros acercamientos al tema de los emigrados de las guerra de Independencia cuando estaba haciendo mi doctorado.
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Our latest Under the Rubric, "Submergent Histories," features Mandana Limbert, Jan Jansen, and Jeffrey Kahn discussing how the study of #mobility at #sea can isolate historical processes that, wherever they are found, remain at depth and hard to discern.
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/07...
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/07...
July 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Our latest Under the Rubric, "Submergent Histories," features Mandana Limbert, Jan Jansen, and Jeffrey Kahn discussing how the study of #mobility at #sea can isolate historical processes that, wherever they are found, remain at depth and hard to discern.
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/07...
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/07...
📢New publication!! Out #openaccess FirstView: "Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s," by Jan C. Jansen in Law and History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social. Access here doi.org/10.1017/S073.... Short summary in 🧵
Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s
doi.org
August 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
📢New publication!! Out #openaccess FirstView: "Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s," by Jan C. Jansen in Law and History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social. Access here doi.org/10.1017/S073.... Short summary in 🧵
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Fascinating new article by Jan Jansen!
"how alien legislation was reused, and reinvented, in two crucial arenas of imperial reconfiguration: the push for political equality by free people of color and the abolition of the slave trade."
doi.org/10.1017/S073...
"how alien legislation was reused, and reinvented, in two crucial arenas of imperial reconfiguration: the push for political equality by free people of color and the abolition of the slave trade."
doi.org/10.1017/S073...
August 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Fascinating new article by Jan Jansen!
"how alien legislation was reused, and reinvented, in two crucial arenas of imperial reconfiguration: the push for political equality by free people of color and the abolition of the slave trade."
doi.org/10.1017/S073...
"how alien legislation was reused, and reinvented, in two crucial arenas of imperial reconfiguration: the push for political equality by free people of color and the abolition of the slave trade."
doi.org/10.1017/S073...
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🚨 New Law & History Review article alert:
Jan C. Jansen, "Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s"
Open Access ✅
doi.org/10.1017/S073...
Jan C. Jansen, "Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s"
Open Access ✅
doi.org/10.1017/S073...
Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s
doi.org
August 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
🚨 New Law & History Review article alert:
Jan C. Jansen, "Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s"
Open Access ✅
doi.org/10.1017/S073...
Jan C. Jansen, "Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s"
Open Access ✅
doi.org/10.1017/S073...
📢Out now in print and #OpenAccess online: Jan C. Jansen, "'A Sanctuary to Crime'? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833," Comparative Studies in Society and History 67, no. 2 (2025): 429–456. @csshjournal.bsky.social
“A Sanctuary to Crime”? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833 | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
“A Sanctuary to Crime”? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833 - Volume 67 Issue 2
doi.org
April 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
📢Out now in print and #OpenAccess online: Jan C. Jansen, "'A Sanctuary to Crime'? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833," Comparative Studies in Society and History 67, no. 2 (2025): 429–456. @csshjournal.bsky.social
📢 New publication! Out now online and in print: "'Sterile in Spanish Hands': French Visions of Empire, Saint‐Domingue Refugees, and the Spanish Caribbean in the Age of the Haitian Revolution", by @thomasmareite.bsky.social, French Historical Studies 48, no. 1 (2025): 37-64. @sfhs.bsky.social
“Sterile in Spanish Hands”: French Visions of Empire, Saint‐Domingue Refugees, and the Spanish Caribbean in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
Abstract. This article examines schemes for reviving the French imperial presence in the Caribbean against the backdrop of the Haitian Revolution. It analyzes a series of memoranda sent to French mini...
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March 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
📢 New publication! Out now online and in print: "'Sterile in Spanish Hands': French Visions of Empire, Saint‐Domingue Refugees, and the Spanish Caribbean in the Age of the Haitian Revolution", by @thomasmareite.bsky.social, French Historical Studies 48, no. 1 (2025): 37-64. @sfhs.bsky.social
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#Annales English Edition 📕
'Lost #Letters. Epistolary Communities, War, and Familial Ties in the #Maritime Atlantic World of the Eighteenth Century'
by Renaud Morieux (@renaudmorieux.bsky.social)
👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
'Lost #Letters. Epistolary Communities, War, and Familial Ties in the #Maritime Atlantic World of the Eighteenth Century'
by Renaud Morieux (@renaudmorieux.bsky.social)
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
![Catherine Françoise Pasturel to her husband Pierre Emmanuel Delamare, a caulker’s assistant
Note: Written by a scribe, this letter described the couple’s young daughter, who had been speaking of her father every day, and recounted a niece giving birth.
Source: Kew, The National Archives, ADM 97/131, Le Havre, “this seventeenth 1748 [sic].”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ynwfzn2lk65cgy364cmovmtq/bafkreiacsdy3ssqk25wc55voiovmeetrmtweemzq3qfky62g6jya6gih2q@jpeg)
March 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
#Annales English Edition 📕
'Lost #Letters. Epistolary Communities, War, and Familial Ties in the #Maritime Atlantic World of the Eighteenth Century'
by Renaud Morieux (@renaudmorieux.bsky.social)
👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
'Lost #Letters. Epistolary Communities, War, and Familial Ties in the #Maritime Atlantic World of the Eighteenth Century'
by Renaud Morieux (@renaudmorieux.bsky.social)
👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Out on FirstView, Jan C. Jansen's "“A Sanctuary to Crime”? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819-1833" explores how the British Caribbean turned into an unlikely refuge for intercolonial escapees from #slavery in the 1820s and 30s.
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
“A Sanctuary to Crime”? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833 | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
“A Sanctuary to Crime”? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833
doi.org
February 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Out on FirstView, Jan C. Jansen's "“A Sanctuary to Crime”? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819-1833" explores how the British Caribbean turned into an unlikely refuge for intercolonial escapees from #slavery in the 1820s and 30s.
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
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This weekend I received from @sfhs.bsky.social a copy of my contribution to the latest issue of French Historical Studies. This article is based on the discovery of a memoir written in 1807 by Alexandre-Joseph Lambert, colonial sub-inspector in Guadeloupe, preserved (...)
February 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
This weekend I received from @sfhs.bsky.social a copy of my contribution to the latest issue of French Historical Studies. This article is based on the discovery of a memoir written in 1807 by Alexandre-Joseph Lambert, colonial sub-inspector in Guadeloupe, preserved (...)
Tune in to Wendy Aris's exciting Dis A fi mi History podcast as our very own @jkeindorf.bsky.social talks about his research on revolutionary-era refugees in Kingston, Jamaica!
From Saint-Domingue to Jamaica: The Refugee Experience
Welcome to the Dis A fi mi History podcast episode where Wendy Aris hosts Jannik Keindorf, a PhD candidate from the University of Tübingen, Germany. In this insightful dialogue, they explore the intri...
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February 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Tune in to Wendy Aris's exciting Dis A fi mi History podcast as our very own @jkeindorf.bsky.social talks about his research on revolutionary-era refugees in Kingston, Jamaica!
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I had the joy of being a guest on Wendy Aris' impressive podcast project "Dis a fi mi History" on the history of the Caribbean recently. We are talking about refugees from the Haitian Revolution in Jamaica, and the relevance of this history for Jamaicans today. You can listen to my ramblings here 👇
February 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I had the joy of being a guest on Wendy Aris' impressive podcast project "Dis a fi mi History" on the history of the Caribbean recently. We are talking about refugees from the Haitian Revolution in Jamaica, and the relevance of this history for Jamaicans today. You can listen to my ramblings here 👇
In anticipation of further new publications, we'd like to use the coming days to revisit some of the key project-related publications from our team members over the past years. Please see the 🧵as it evolves over the next days 👇
February 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In anticipation of further new publications, we'd like to use the coming days to revisit some of the key project-related publications from our team members over the past years. Please see the 🧵as it evolves over the next days 👇
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Please share and maybe request for your library! Happy that my book “Worlds of the Ring: Nation and Empire in the British and German Circus” will be published with @manchesterup.bsky.social later this month manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175090/
Manchester University Press - Worlds of the ring
Worlds of the ring - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Worlds of the ring by Sabine Hanke
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January 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Please share and maybe request for your library! Happy that my book “Worlds of the Ring: Nation and Empire in the British and German Circus” will be published with @manchesterup.bsky.social later this month manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175090/
📢New publication, out in #OpenAccess: "'A Sanctuary to Crime'? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833" by Jan C. Jansen in @csshjournal.bsky.social. Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S001.... Short abstract👇 in 🧵.
“A Sanctuary to Crime”? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833 | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
“A Sanctuary to Crime”? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833
www.cambridge.org
January 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
📢New publication, out in #OpenAccess: "'A Sanctuary to Crime'? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833" by Jan C. Jansen in @csshjournal.bsky.social. Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S001.... Short abstract👇 in 🧵.
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For anyone interested in how to write global histories: "Rethinking Global History, ed. by Jürgen Osterhammel and our very own Stefanie Gänger is finally out - open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
Rethinking Global History
Cambridge Core - Global History - Rethinking Global History
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November 22, 2024 at 1:54 PM
For anyone interested in how to write global histories: "Rethinking Global History, ed. by Jürgen Osterhammel and our very own Stefanie Gänger is finally out - open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
Hello! 👋 Welcome to our new blue sky account!
December 22, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Hello! 👋 Welcome to our new blue sky account!