Michaël Roy
@mroyupc.bsky.social
Professor of History @upcite.bsky.social. Author of FUGITIVE TEXTS & YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS. Co-director of @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social.
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On this day in 1759, 267 years ago, the radical abolitionist Benjamin Lay passed away at age 77. A hundred years before William Lloyd Garrison, Lay called for the immediate and complete abolition of slavery worldwide, with no payments to enslavers. Let us remember him. Art by Marco Lorenzetti.
February 8, 2026 at 11:30 AM
On this day in 1759, 267 years ago, the radical abolitionist Benjamin Lay passed away at age 77. A hundred years before William Lloyd Garrison, Lay called for the immediate and complete abolition of slavery worldwide, with no payments to enslavers. Let us remember him. Art by Marco Lorenzetti.
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Olivier Ritz - Une histoire littéraire de la Révolution française
À paraître en mars chez Gallimard
À paraître en mars chez Gallimard
February 5, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Olivier Ritz - Une histoire littéraire de la Révolution française
À paraître en mars chez Gallimard
À paraître en mars chez Gallimard
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Dr Alice Mathieu-Dubois (1861-1942), the first Black woman Doctor of Médecine (MD) from French Guiana, will be honoured with her name inscribed on the Eiffel Tower 2027 onwards.
Read about her in French here, numerabilis.u-paris.fr/ressources/p...
#BlackHistoryMonth
Read about her in French here, numerabilis.u-paris.fr/ressources/p...
#BlackHistoryMonth
numerabilis.u-paris.fr
February 4, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Dr Alice Mathieu-Dubois (1861-1942), the first Black woman Doctor of Médecine (MD) from French Guiana, will be honoured with her name inscribed on the Eiffel Tower 2027 onwards.
Read about her in French here, numerabilis.u-paris.fr/ressources/p...
#BlackHistoryMonth
Read about her in French here, numerabilis.u-paris.fr/ressources/p...
#BlackHistoryMonth
Le séminaire Nineteenth-Century Worlds (W19) reprend aujourd'hui! Il y sera question des expériences du passé à travers le cas des spectacles panoramiques et des représentations de la guerre de Sécession à la fin du 19e siècle
echelles.u-pariscite.fr/events/event...
echelles.u-pariscite.fr/events/event...
Séminaire W19 — Lucie Grandjean — Spectacles de guerre | Echelles
Le séminaire Nineteenth-Century Worlds (W19) reçoit Lucie Grandjean (Institut catholique de Paris) pour une présentation de son article « Reconstituer les batailles pour (re)construire la nation américaine. Panoramas de la guerre dans les États-Unis de la fin du XIXe siècle », à paraître en 2026 dans la Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle.
echelles.u-pariscite.fr
January 30, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Le séminaire Nineteenth-Century Worlds (W19) reprend aujourd'hui! Il y sera question des expériences du passé à travers le cas des spectacles panoramiques et des représentations de la guerre de Sécession à la fin du 19e siècle
echelles.u-pariscite.fr/events/event...
echelles.u-pariscite.fr/events/event...
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The National Park Service has taken down an exhibit on slavery at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, the Interior Department said on Thursday, following President Trump’s directive to remove materials that promote “corrosive ideology.”
National Park Service Dismantles Slavery Exhibit in Philadelphia
The exhibit memorialized nine people enslaved by George Washington. The Park Service said it was being removed in accordance with a directive from President Trump.
nyti.ms
January 23, 2026 at 1:25 PM
The National Park Service has taken down an exhibit on slavery at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, the Interior Department said on Thursday, following President Trump’s directive to remove materials that promote “corrosive ideology.”
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Happy MLK day weekend people! So happy to see this volume on Pennington by Oxford UP out, I have an essay in it. Let us take heart from the abolitionists who fought when southern slaveholders pretty much controlled the federal government in the 1850s the Presidency Senate and Supreme Court.
January 19, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Happy MLK day weekend people! So happy to see this volume on Pennington by Oxford UP out, I have an essay in it. Let us take heart from the abolitionists who fought when southern slaveholders pretty much controlled the federal government in the 1850s the Presidency Senate and Supreme Court.
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« L’espace académique reste majoritairement blanc » : des travaux montrent l’étendue du racisme à l’université
Par @mathildegoanec.bsky.social et @sabrinakassa.bsky.social
Par @mathildegoanec.bsky.social et @sabrinakassa.bsky.social
« L’espace académique reste majoritairement blanc » : des travaux montrent l’étendue du racisme à l’université
La revue de sciences sociales « Marronnages » propose une série d’enquêtes pour objectiver les discriminations à l’œuvre dans le monde universitaire. La seule manière, selon les chercheurs Abdellali Hajjat et Christelle Hamel, de mener une véritable politique pour l’égalité.
l.mediapart.fr
January 17, 2026 at 9:37 AM
« L’espace académique reste majoritairement blanc » : des travaux montrent l’étendue du racisme à l’université
Par @mathildegoanec.bsky.social et @sabrinakassa.bsky.social
Par @mathildegoanec.bsky.social et @sabrinakassa.bsky.social
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Mise à l'honneur dans le documentaire "L'adieu à la viande" diffusé sur @artefr.bsky.social, retrouvez la #BIUSanté Médecine à travers le portrait d'Anna Kingsford, figure de la pratique du végétarisme qui soutenait en 1880, la première thèse de l'histoire sur le sujet. 📺➡ https://swll.to/tqUQd
January 13, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Mise à l'honneur dans le documentaire "L'adieu à la viande" diffusé sur @artefr.bsky.social, retrouvez la #BIUSanté Médecine à travers le portrait d'Anna Kingsford, figure de la pratique du végétarisme qui soutenait en 1880, la première thèse de l'histoire sur le sujet. 📺➡ https://swll.to/tqUQd
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Carine Lounissi, Eric Schnakenbourg et Bertrand Van Ruymbeke - La révolution américaine et la naissance des États-Unis (1763-1800)
À paraître en mars chez Armand Colin
À paraître en mars chez Armand Colin
January 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Carine Lounissi, Eric Schnakenbourg et Bertrand Van Ruymbeke - La révolution américaine et la naissance des États-Unis (1763-1800)
À paraître en mars chez Armand Colin
À paraître en mars chez Armand Colin
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How did 19th-century Black activists fight for accurate census data? Meagan Wierda traces the struggle from Shirley Chisholm (1970) to the Early Republic, examining Black New Yorkers’ petitions against the error-riddled 1840 census.
Read the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/01/06/t...
Read the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/01/06/t...
To Be Counted Is to Be Considered
Meagan Wierda illustrates the importance of accurate census data to the long history Black activists in the United States.
thepanorama.shear.org
January 6, 2026 at 7:11 PM
How did 19th-century Black activists fight for accurate census data? Meagan Wierda traces the struggle from Shirley Chisholm (1970) to the Early Republic, examining Black New Yorkers’ petitions against the error-riddled 1840 census.
Read the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/01/06/t...
Read the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/01/06/t...
I was asked by the French journal e-Rea to write about a book that was significant for my development as a historian. I chose The Slave's Cause by @profmsinha.bsky.social, which I realize will be turning ten next month. Happy anniversary to an inspiring book!
journals.openedition.org/erea/21106
journals.openedition.org/erea/21106
Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition
En 2018 et 2019 a figuré au programme de l’agrégation externe d’anglais une question sur l’abolition de l’esclavage aux États-Unis entre 1776 et 1865. L’inscription d’une telle question au concours...
journals.openedition.org
January 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
I was asked by the French journal e-Rea to write about a book that was significant for my development as a historian. I chose The Slave's Cause by @profmsinha.bsky.social, which I realize will be turning ten next month. Happy anniversary to an inspiring book!
journals.openedition.org/erea/21106
journals.openedition.org/erea/21106
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Mickalene Thomas, plasticienne américaine : « Je puise dans mon histoire pour célébrer la beauté du corps noir »
Mickalene Thomas, plasticienne américaine : « Je puise dans mon histoire pour célébrer la beauté du corps noir »
Figure majeure des scènes queer et afro-américaine, l’artiste fait l’objet d’une exposition au Grand Palais, à Paris. Une mise en scène qu’elle voit comme un geste politique.
www.lemonde.fr
January 8, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Mickalene Thomas, plasticienne américaine : « Je puise dans mon histoire pour célébrer la beauté du corps noir »
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Book Launch: Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories (@harvardpress.bsky.social, 2025), by Miranda Spieler (AUP).
Commentary: Anne Lafont (EHESS), Pierre Singaravélou (Paris 1), Jennifer Boittin (UNC).
📅⏳: Jan. 14, 18:30
🏢: Q-801
✍: tinyurl.com/AUPSpieler
ℹ️: aup.edu/news-events/...
Commentary: Anne Lafont (EHESS), Pierre Singaravélou (Paris 1), Jennifer Boittin (UNC).
📅⏳: Jan. 14, 18:30
🏢: Q-801
✍: tinyurl.com/AUPSpieler
ℹ️: aup.edu/news-events/...
January 7, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Book Launch: Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories (@harvardpress.bsky.social, 2025), by Miranda Spieler (AUP).
Commentary: Anne Lafont (EHESS), Pierre Singaravélou (Paris 1), Jennifer Boittin (UNC).
📅⏳: Jan. 14, 18:30
🏢: Q-801
✍: tinyurl.com/AUPSpieler
ℹ️: aup.edu/news-events/...
Commentary: Anne Lafont (EHESS), Pierre Singaravélou (Paris 1), Jennifer Boittin (UNC).
📅⏳: Jan. 14, 18:30
🏢: Q-801
✍: tinyurl.com/AUPSpieler
ℹ️: aup.edu/news-events/...
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« Le panafricanisme est aussi une forme de création esthétique »
Par Ludovic Lamant
Par Ludovic Lamant
« Le panafricanisme est aussi une forme de création esthétique »
Après l’exposition « Paris noir » du Centre Pompidou l’été dernier, le Musée d’art contemporain de Barcelone s’y prend autrement pour célébrer en grand le panafricanisme, de 1920 à nos jours. Entretien avec la directrice des lieux, qui est aussi l’une des commissaires de la manifestation, Elvira Dyangani Ose.
l.mediapart.fr
December 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
« Le panafricanisme est aussi une forme de création esthétique »
Par Ludovic Lamant
Par Ludovic Lamant
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On ne peut que regretter qu’un journal, qui veut être vu comme un symbole de la liberté d’expression, s’en empare pour raviver et véhiculer une imagerie coloniale et raciste peu compatible avec l’universalisme républicain. Soutien à @rokhayadiallo.bsky.social
www.ldh-france.org/une-caricatu...
www.ldh-france.org/une-caricatu...
December 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
On ne peut que regretter qu’un journal, qui veut être vu comme un symbole de la liberté d’expression, s’en empare pour raviver et véhiculer une imagerie coloniale et raciste peu compatible avec l’universalisme républicain. Soutien à @rokhayadiallo.bsky.social
www.ldh-france.org/une-caricatu...
www.ldh-france.org/une-caricatu...
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LA VIE EN NOIR•E
Je termine à l’instant l’écoute des 4 épisodes de « La Série Documentaire » par Sébastien THEME sur France Culture et je suis aussi émue que fière et pleine de gratitude.
Si vous ne l’avez pas encore écoutée, c’est par ici que ça se passe :
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Je termine à l’instant l’écoute des 4 épisodes de « La Série Documentaire » par Sébastien THEME sur France Culture et je suis aussi émue que fière et pleine de gratitude.
Si vous ne l’avez pas encore écoutée, c’est par ici que ça se passe :
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
La vie en noir.e : un podcast à écouter en ligne | France Culture
LSD s'intéresse sans concession à une question : Qu’est-ce que ça veut dire, aujourd’hui, être noir·e en France ? La série déconstruit les clichés, interroge les identités, et révèle le piège du regar...
www.radiofrance.fr
December 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
LA VIE EN NOIR•E
Je termine à l’instant l’écoute des 4 épisodes de « La Série Documentaire » par Sébastien THEME sur France Culture et je suis aussi émue que fière et pleine de gratitude.
Si vous ne l’avez pas encore écoutée, c’est par ici que ça se passe :
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Je termine à l’instant l’écoute des 4 épisodes de « La Série Documentaire » par Sébastien THEME sur France Culture et je suis aussi émue que fière et pleine de gratitude.
Si vous ne l’avez pas encore écoutée, c’est par ici que ça se passe :
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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My forthcoming book—
For which I began research in 2006.
Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press.
Cover will be added soon.
The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery
For which I began research in 2006.
Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press.
Cover will be added soon.
The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery
The King's Slaves
A provocative account of how empire and absolutism institutionalized slavery in America
press.princeton.edu
December 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
My forthcoming book—
For which I began research in 2006.
Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press.
Cover will be added soon.
The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery
For which I began research in 2006.
Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press.
Cover will be added soon.
The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery
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Friends!!! You know how obsessed I have become with Common Sense.
Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.
I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.
I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The Pamphlet That Has Roused Americans to Action for 250 Years
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Friends!!! You know how obsessed I have become with Common Sense.
Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.
I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.
I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Check out our multi-expert review of "The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920," by @profmsinha.bsky.social Manisha Sinha
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Reconstruction: Democracy for All”
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 26, No. 2, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Check out our multi-expert review of "The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920," by @profmsinha.bsky.social Manisha Sinha
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Excited to see my book, 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South, is up on CUP's website - coming out in July 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
‘I Felt All This’
Cambridge Core - American Studies - ‘I Felt All This’
www.cambridge.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Excited to see my book, 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South, is up on CUP's website - coming out in July 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
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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
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
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.
www.ed.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
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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?
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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?
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Very grateful to share that my book Dissenting Forces: A History of Abolition and Black Thought is now out with NYU press
nyupress.org/978147983661...
nyupress.org/978147983661...
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...
nyupress.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Very grateful to share that my book Dissenting Forces: A History of Abolition and Black Thought is now out with NYU press
nyupress.org/978147983661...
nyupress.org/978147983661...
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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
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! 🙏
YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS is now available in open access through JSTOR and Open Square @nyupress.bsky.social
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30...
opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30...
opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...
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...
www.jstor.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS is now available in open access through JSTOR and Open Square @nyupress.bsky.social
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30...
opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30...
opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...