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Gad Heuman

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Historian of the Caribbean, slavery, emancipation. Professor Emeritus, Warwick Univ. Author: Between Black and White; The Killing Time; The Caribbean. Editor, Slavery & Abolition

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Gad Heuman @gadheuman.bsky.social · 3h

Our next Caribbean webinar @UCLAmericas is Wednesday, the 22nd at 5:30 pm:

Bound Journeys, Freedom Places: Slavery, Movement, Place, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
(Presenter: Camillia Cowling)

To register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Bound Journeys, Freedom Places: Slavery, Movement, Place, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

Join Dr Camillia Cowing, University of Warwick, to discuss how a new slave society was forged in Cuba’s nineteenth century through a bitter, transformational set of struggles.

www.ucl.ac.uk

Gad Heuman @gadheuman.bsky.social · 13d

The September issue of Slavery & Abolition is a Special Issue:

Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present
Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling & Esteban Salas

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...

Slavery & Abolition

Special Issue: Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present. Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling, and Esteban Salas. Volume 46, Issue 3 of Slavery & Abolition

www.tandfonline.com

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Gad Heuman @gadheuman.bsky.social · 20d

New article in Slavery & Abolition online and @RoutledgeHist:

A Coromantee from Dahomey? On the Meaning of ‘Dorme’ in Jamaica and the West African Origins of Apongo, an Enslaved Rebel Leader
(Author: Devin Leigh)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reposted by Gad Heuman

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26d

'The publishers...found that less than 25% of authors disclosed their use of AI to prepare manuscripts, despite the publisher mandating disclosure for submission.'

AI tool detects LLM-generated text in research papers and peer reviews

Authors and peer reviewers are failing to disclose the use of LLMs despite journal policies limiting their use.

www.nature.com

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Gad Heuman @gadheuman.bsky.social · 27d

New article in Slavery & Abolition online and@RoutledgeHist:

Bombazelle’s Flight: Slavery, Gender, and Racial Identity in the Post-Removal United States South
(Author: Justin Isaac Roger)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Bombazelle’s Flight: Slavery, Gender, and Racial Identity in the Post-Removal United States South

Recent studies have revised narratives about slavery and freedom in the aftermath of Indigenous Southerners’ dispossession in the United States during the nineteenth century. Black Indigenous peopl...