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Michaël Roy
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Professor of History @upcite.bsky.social. Author of FUGITIVE TEXTS & YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS. Co-director of @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social.
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profmsinha.bsky.social
Very grateful to American Nineteenth Century History’s David Cox for putting together this wonderful symposium on #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic which grew out of the panel on the book at the United States Intellectual History conference organized by Benjamin Park.
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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randybrowne.bsky.social
I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin

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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.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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wheatleycensus.bsky.social
Today’s Wheatley Census mystery: are there really no copies of the 1773 first edition in France? Published in London in 1773 and distributed, in part, through Methodist networks of Selina Hastings, there are copies all over the UK. But none in France?
A map showing mostly Europe with red dots indicating book locations in the UK and Germany, nothing in France.
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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mjirik2.bsky.social
Very grateful to share that my book Dissenting Forces: A History of Abolition and Black Thought is now out with NYU press

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Dissenting Forces
A history of enslaved people and abolitionists who fought racism on college campuses and reimagined higher learningSince their inception in North America, un...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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briandelay.bsky.social
CFP: "AMERICAN REVOLUTION INTERNATIONAL" - Huntington Library, Nov. 6-7, 2006. With generous support from the Early Modern Studies Institute at USC, my co-conspirators & I look forward to two days of generative conversation. Travel & lodging included! Proposals due 1/10. Please spread the word! 🙏
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
mroyupc.bsky.social
YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS is now available in open access through JSTOR and Open Square @nyupress.bsky.social

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Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement on JSTOR
How children helped abolish slavery During the antebellum period, several abolitionist figures, including William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Liberator; S...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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echelles-umr8264.bsky.social
📌 Comment recevoir l'appui d'ECHELLES dans le cadre du concours 2026 des chercheur.e.s du CNRS @cnrs.fr ? On vous explique ici ⬇️
Concours CNRS 2026 : ECHELLES accompagne les candidat·e·s | Echelles
Les candidat·e·s seront informé·e·s du soutien éventuel du laboratoire au début du mois de décembre. La lettre de soutien sera transmise dans les semaines suivantes.
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October 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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October 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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andreloez.bsky.social
Aujourd'hui dans Paroles d'histoire, sur les traces d'un esclave affranchi au XVIIIe siècle, avec @julydup.bsky.social pour son livre @cnrseditions.bsky.social
Bonne écoute et bonne semaine !
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couverture de l'épisode La discussion : Les choix d’écriture du livre (1:00) Que sait-on des conditions dans lesquelles « É » est réduit en esclavage ? (15:30) Un enfant choisi et nommé par le second du navire (20:00) Un esclave revendu, devenu apprenti cuisinier (26:00) Un affranchi, marié, tenant avec succès un hôtel (36:20) Un parcours qui rencontre la Révolution et ses débats sur l’esclavage (47:30) Les conseils de lecture : Olivia Butler, Mauvaise graine Gisli Palsson, L’homme qui vola sa liberté
October 6, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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nytimes.com
The Trump administration ordered several National Park Service sites to take down materials related to slavery and Native Americans, including an 1863 photograph of a formerly enslaved man with scars on his back, one of the most powerful images of the Civil War era. nyti.ms/4nyyyaQ
A man sits with his back to the camera. His back is full of scars and ridges in the skin from beatings. A headline reads: Park Service Is Ordered to Take Down Some Materials on Slavery and Tribes. Photo via the Library of Congress.
September 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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jgarc.bsky.social
Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
September 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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cnrs-idf-villejuif.bsky.social
ECHELLES : un nouveau laboratoire pour repenser l’histoire et les sociétés à l’échelle globale
👉 echelles.u-pariscite.fr/echelles/ech...
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September 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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philipleventhal.bsky.social
Now available! THE RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP: 19th-CENTURY PRINT CULTURE & ANTI-SLAVERY, by Sarah Allison

Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%: bit.ly/3V9ygLk @sarahdallison.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
mroyupc.bsky.social
Just realized that my neighborhood's public library (formerly Bibliothèque Parmentier) has a new name--and I love it!
August 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Jeremy D. Popkin - The First Emancipation

The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France

À paraître en avril aux Princeton UP
July 30, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Caroline Rolland-Diamond - Rosa Parks

À paraître en octobre chez Gallimard
July 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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colnet.bsky.social
"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist
Screenshot of the website header for slavesinparis.org comprising a drawing of the Place des Victoires in 18th-century Paris
July 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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myhnn.bsky.social
Read an excerpt from “Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories” by Miranda Spieler. @harvardpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/slav...
Slave Hunts as “Normal Policing”
In 18th century Paris, policemen accepted that property could take the form of people.
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July 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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adamrothman.bsky.social
If you haven't read Racecraft before, you're in for a treat.
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Racecraft
Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life." Most peop...
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July 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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profmsinha.bsky.social
PUB DATE today folks happy to have written the foreward to Sylvia Frey's classic on black resistance in the south during the American Revolution, one of my favorite books in grad school. @princetonupress.bsky.social did a great job with the new edition. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Water from the Rock
A multifaceted history of Black resistance during the War of Independence
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July 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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theatlantic.com
At night, Toni Morrison worked on her novels. By day, she was the first Black female senior-editor at Random House. She championed a fresh generation of authors, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes. A new book chronicles her time as an editor:
How Toni Morrison Changed Publishing
At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.
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June 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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juliagaffield.bsky.social
PUBLICATION DAY!

_I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social

To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below!
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I Have Avenged America
A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule  ...
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June 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
mroyupc.bsky.social
Grateful to be included in this review of five new works on the era of abolition. Young Abolitionists is in great company!

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hopkinspress.bsky.social Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · Jun 10
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
American Quarterly
Volume 77, Number 2, June 2025
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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW American Quarterly Volume 77, Number 2, June 2025
June 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM