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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 1d

Submissions for the 2025 #Slaveryarchive Book Prize are open until February 15, 2026. Check the call in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese and submit your book www.slaveryarchive.com/book-prize/

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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 3d

Happy US #pubday The Heretic of Cacheu (@UChicagoPress) by Toby Green. The #Slaveryarchive Book Club will discuss the book on October 25, register HERE us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... and get the book here with 30% discount with code UCPNEW at check out press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 2d

Two to go! Join us at the #Slaveryarchive Book Club to discuss The Heretic of Cacheu (U. of Chicago Press) by Toby Green on Oct. 25, register HERE us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... and get the book here with 30% discount with code UCPNEW at check out press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: #Slaveryarchive Book Club with Toby Green (King's College London). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Join us to discuss The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a 17th Century West African Port (Penguin/Allen Lane, 2025) by Toby Green (King's College London) Get the book here and use code UCPNE...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 2d

Join us in Boston this Thursday, October 9, for the @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social for a free signed copy of Humans in Shackles and a hug. Reception at 5:30pm/Award Presentations at 6:30pm at the African Meeting House, 46 Joy Street, Boston, MA. Register at www.maahstonebookaward.org

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 2d

I love seeing the first 5 star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader reviews of my upcoming book, THE CROWN'S SILENCE (Mariner, Jan. 2026), on Netgalley! Pre-order your copy wherever books are sold. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

A lengthy Netgalley reader review of THE CROWN'S SILENCE

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 2d

This was such a delight! Thinking about family and its (il)legibility as essential to politics. Thank you @eicathomefinn.bsky.social for a marvellous paper and @jhowesuk.bsky.social for wonderful response.

Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 5d

FIRST SESSION THIS MONDAY! Join us for "At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule", a paper by @eicathomefinn.bsky.social with comment by @jhowesuk.bsky.social

All welcome in person @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...)

Europe and the world, 1500-1800, IHR seminar, Mondays, 17:30.
6 October: Margot Finn: At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule
10 November: Sari Nauman: Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the Early Modern Baltic Sea
17 November Roger Lee Jesus: Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia
1 December: Ana Lucia Araujo: Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century

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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 3d

Happy US #pubday The Heretic of Cacheu (@UChicagoPress) by Toby Green. The #Slaveryarchive Book Club will discuss the book on October 25, register HERE us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... and get the book here with 30% discount with code UCPNEW at check out press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 5d

A big congratulations is in order for author Randy M. Browne—his book THE DRIVER'S STORY has just won the Slavery Archive Book Prize, granted by the #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative (@slaveryarchive.bsky.social)! bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs

The Driver’s Story – Penn Press

The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve thei...

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 5d

I am so excited to share this news!

#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 6d

Keeping our commitment to recognize the outstanding book on the history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, we are delighted to announce The Driver’s Story by historian @randybrowne.bsky.social as the Winner of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024 www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...

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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 6d

Keeping our commitment to recognize the outstanding book on the history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, we are delighted to announce The Driver’s Story by historian @randybrowne.bsky.social as the Winner of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024 www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 7d

Sat., Oct. 4, at 2:00 pm EDT it will be my pleasure to speak about my new book *Freedom Ship* with the #slaveryarchive Book Club. Please register through the link below and join us! Warm thanks to @araujohistorian.bsky.social and Alex Gil for organizing the event.

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 29d

I'm so honored that THE DRIVER'S STORY is a finalist for the @slaveryarchive.bsky.social Book Prize!

Congrats to the other finalists, @daviddoddington.bsky.social and @profjennyshaw.bsky.social.

www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...

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Cecelia Cancellaro @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social · 29d

More well-deserved accolades for @daviddoddington.bsky.social whose book is a finalist for the @slaveryarchive.bsky.social book prize--"is an extraordinary study shedding new light on old age and aging in the antebellum US South." @universitypress.cambridge.org offers our big congratulations!

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 20d

Congratulations to author @randybrowne.bsky.social, whose groundbreaking book THE DRIVER'S STORY is a finalist for the Slavery Archive Book Prize, granted by the #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative (@slaveryarchive.bsky.social)! bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs

The Driver’s Story – Penn Press

The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve thei...

bit.ly

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you @slaveryarchive.bsky.social! This is very unexpected - I had no idea!

#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · Sep 9

We are happy to announce the three finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024! The winner will be announced at the end of September. To know more about the three finalists, visit our website www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 8d

The Women Who Ran Senegambia: How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town. An excerpt from The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green at History News Network #slaveryarchive www.hnn.us/article/here...

The Women Who Ran Senegambia

How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town.

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 8d

Connecting Atlantic histories: The Heretic of Cacheu (UK edition) by historian Toby Green delivered today to Gustavo Monteiro at the Biblioteca Nacional de Cabo Verde, Praia, Santiago, Cabo Verde. Bonus: Amilcar Cabral memorial #slaveryarchive

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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · Sep 9

We are happy to announce the three finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024! The winner will be announced at the end of September. To know more about the three finalists, visit our website www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · Sep 8

📚💙 #booksky: 🔥 Just dropped on NetGalley: THE CROWN'S SILENCE. For the first time, the British monarchy's deep, centuries-long ties to the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery are exposed in forensic detail. Request now!
#TheCrownsSilence #NetGalley
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The Crown's Silence

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social · Sep 8

#slaveryarchive is the jam!

#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · Sep 8

Don't miss historian Vincent Brown ( @professorvbrown.bsky.social) talk in this important new initiative. Deep Dive Session: The Digital is Black: Reparative Methods for Storytelling for the History for our Future Learning Network. #slaveryarchive www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

DEEP DIVE:THE DIGITAL IS BLACK 2025 Professor Vincent Brown with Fiona Compton and Dr Renee Landell:

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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · Sep 8

Don't miss historian Vincent Brown ( @professorvbrown.bsky.social) talk in this important new initiative. Deep Dive Session: The Digital is Black: Reparative Methods for Storytelling for the History for our Future Learning Network. #slaveryarchive www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

DEEP DIVE:THE DIGITAL IS BLACK 2025 Professor Vincent Brown with Fiona Compton and Dr Renee Landell:

YouTube video by HOUSE OF DREAD Studio

www.youtube.com

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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · Sep 7

FIVE YEARS of #Slaveryarchive Book Club! More than ever, it's time to read, assign, discuss, share, buy, and gift books that tell the history of slavery in the Americas (and elsewhere) The book club has been doing this for full five years. Join us www.slaveryarchive.com/book-club/20...

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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · Sep 7

Join the #Slaveryarchive Book Club on September 13 to discuss the great new collection A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking with general editor Benjamin Lawrance and the volume editors. Register here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · Sep 7

We are looking forward to announcing the finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize this coming week. Bear with us!

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Aug 20

Call for Papers! 🧵

The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz)

Abstract Deadline: Sept 19

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Public Science

Call for Papers Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceThe Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy

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