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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢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

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Nicolás A. González Quintero @nagonzalezq.bsky.social · Sep 3

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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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · Jul 30

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.

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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Aug 25

4/4 By their emphasis on sweeping executive power, various actors regarded alien acts as an appropriate legal tool to respond to, to avert or subvert what they regarded as challenges or legal complexities of the age of emancipation.

ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Aug 25

3/4 The alien acts turned into flexible tools of colonial governance. The paper examines how alien legislation was used in two crucial arenas of imperial reconfiguration in the British Caribbean in the 1820s-30s: the push for political equality by free people of color and slave trade abolition.

ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Aug 25

2/4 In reaction to revolutionary upheaval around 1800, the British parliament and colonial legislatures in the Americas passed their first statutory provisions to govern migration and aliens as such. As this article argues, these “alien acts” were much more than about border and migration controls.

ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Aug 25

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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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · Aug 8

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."

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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Aug 8

🚨 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 ✅

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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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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Apr 8

4/4 The consequences of their actions were far-reaching and often uncontrollable, as they carved out a legal grey zone that created, in practice, a quasi-free soil sanctuary in the heart of Britain’s planation complex.

ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Apr 8

3/4 It shows how the fugitives entered in intense, and contentious, encounters with low-ranking officials on the ground. They used legal ambiguities and loopholes in British slave trade abolition, thereby resetting, reinterpreting, and broadening the meaning and scope of freedom granted under it.

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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Apr 8

2/4 Based on research across Europe and the Caribbean, the article explores how the British Caribbean turned into an unlikely refuge for intercolonial maroons from slavery in the 1820s and 1830s as hundreds of enslaved men and women fled from French, Danish, and Dutch Caribbean colonies.

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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Apr 8

📢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

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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Mar 10

Could be read alongside Jan C. Jansen, "American Indians for Saint-Domingue?: Exile, Violence, and Imperial Geopolitics after the French and Haitian Revolutions", French Historical Studies 45, no. 1 (2022): 49-86.
#OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1215/0016...

American Indians for Saint-Domingue? | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press

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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Mar 10

The article examines visions of a French imperial revival at the moment of the Haitian Revolution and French retreat from Louisiana, targeting Spanish Caribbean colonies. Crucial for these plans was the scattered diaspora of Saint-Domingue refugees. Also available at hal.science/hal-04970600.

“Sterile in Spanish Hands”: French Visions of Empire, Saint‐Domingue Refugees, and the Spanish Caribbean in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

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 ministries by ...

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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Mar 10

📢 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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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · Mar 5

#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)

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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].”

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · Feb 26

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...

“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

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Thomas Mareite @thomasmareite.bsky.social · Feb 24

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 (...)

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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Feb 20

18/ Further publications are listed on our website: uni-tuebingen.de/atlantic-exi.... Stay tuned for new publications coming in soon!

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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Feb 20

17/ The chapter surveys global and imperial projects during the French revolution and brings out the place of refugees in them. It also ties in with the 2021 successful forum ed. by @meganmaruschke.bsky.social and Manuel Covo "The French Revolution as an Imperial Revolution" in @sfhs.bsky.social

The French Revolution as an Imperial Revolution

Abstract. Attempts to reframe the Age of Revolutions as imperial in nature have not fully integrated the French Revolution. Replying to this gap and criticisms of the Revolution's global turn, this es...

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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Feb 20

16/ We will close our recap with a more recent publication by @meganmaruschke.bsky.social: "(Dis)entangling the French Globalization Project in the Age of Revolutions," in French Globalization Projects, ed. Matthias Middell (Göttingen, 2025), 201–22, also available in #OpenAccess. 👇

(Dis)entangling the French Globalization Project in the Age of Revolutions | Default Book Series

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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Feb 19

15/ Explores the case of Lecesne, Escoffery and Gonville, three men of color, sons of Haitian refugees, deported from Jamaica as "dangerous aliens" in 1823, which set off a sprawling debate about the terms of membership in the British Empire ... also a preview of a larger monographic study.

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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Feb 19

14/ A study showcasing our work on how refugee movements intersected with shifting concepts of belonging: "Aliens in a Revolutionary World: Refugees, Migration Control and Subjecthood in the British Atlantic, 1790s–1820s" by Jan C. Jansen, #OpenAccess in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social 255 (2022). 👇

Aliens in a Revolutionary World: Refugees, Migration Control and Subjecthood in the British Atlantic, 1790s–1820s*

Abstract. During the political and military upheavals between the 1770s and 1820s, societies and states across the Atlantic world grappled with intricate i

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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Feb 16

13/ Building on Ana's ground-breaking PhD research on the Venezuelan diaspora during the War of Independence, the article follows the activities of one notary involved in the interactions of enslaved people seeking emancipation and republican rebels seeking to establish their state authority.

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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Feb 16

12/ Another fascinating case study from our group, this time by @shirleyotto.bsky.social: "The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos During the War of Independence (1806–1833)," #OpenAccess in: The Americas 81,3 (2024): 435-462 👇

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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