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Casey Schmitt

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Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Jul 15

There's a discount code for pre-orders!

If you've always wanted to read about sixteenth- and seventeenth-century smuggling, piracy, and human trafficking in the Caribbean AND you love a good deal, use:
PENN-CSCHMITT30 for 30% off. 🗃️

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The Predatory Sea – Penn Press

A new interpretation of captivity, human trafficking, and colonization in the seventeenth-century CaribbeanA century before the height of the Atlantic slave ...

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 17d

Share widely!

We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!

The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!

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Annual Meeting – French Colonial Historical Society

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 1d

Haha! Well, now I know what book two will be about! 😆

Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 1d

If you're bored tonight around 7pm EST, join Jessica Chopin Roney and I for a conversation about The Predatory Sea! 🗃️

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Fireside Chat- The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!!! What well-deserved news!

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Next week! librarycompany.org/upcoming-fir...

Upcoming Fireside Chats – The Library Company of Philadelphia

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 12d

Hahaha!!! Perfectly timed...

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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 14d

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame seeks a tenure-track assistant professor who specializes in Afro Latin America. joblist.mla.org/job/2000392/...

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 14d

Very excited for this book! Congratulations @mbarcia24.bsky.social !!!

Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social · 14d

@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you for sharing - this looks great!

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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 20d

Read an excerpt from “The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean” by @csschmitt.bsky.social. @pennpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/free...

Freedoms Lost in Translation

In the 17th-century Caribbean, a person’s legal status depended on who controlled the land where they labored.

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 28d

THIS is going to be a game changer! 🎉🎉🎉 June 2026 can't come fast enough! 🗃️

Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 29d

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Sep 5

Aww!!! Thank you!

Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Sep 4

ACH meeting location announced for this summer!!! All you Caribbean historians, I'll see you in Jamaica soon! 🗃️

Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · Sep 4

The ACH Executive Committee is pleased to announce that its 57th Annual Conference will be held at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.)

Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...

Annual Meeting – Association of Caribbean Historians

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Sep 4

I love it when the National Archives delivers an absolute mess! That's truly terrible!

a man covering his face with a black hat with starz written on the bottom left

ALT: a man covering his face with a black hat with starz written on the bottom left

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Sep 4

Haha! Yes, that is much, much worse! 😂

Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Sep 4

What's more fun than reading several hundred pages of this? 🫣

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Aug 29

Aww, thank you for sharing!!! I'm really looking forward to hearing what you think!

Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Aug 28

Aww, thank you!! Penn gets all the credit for the cover!

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Aug 22

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.

Y'all this isn't sustainable.

La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center

Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thank you!

Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Aug 25

Just in time for your "snuggling" in the Atlantic World lectures! 😂

Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Aug 22

♥️ Can't wait to celebrate with you in October!

Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Aug 22

🥰 Awww!!!!! Thank you, friend!!!

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thank you!!! And thank you especially for the book's beautiful maps - they look so wonderful in print!

Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thank you!!