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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...

06.10.2025 09:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Driverโ€™s Story โ€“ 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...

A big congratulations is in order for author Randy M. Browneโ€”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

03.10.2025 19:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am so excited to share this news!

03.10.2025 10:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 55    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Keeping our commitment to recognize the outstanding book on the history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, we are delighted to announce The Driverโ€™s Story by historian @randybrowne.bsky.social as the Winner of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024 www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...

03.10.2025 08:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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.

us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

01.10.2025 10:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
2024 #Slavery Archive Book Prize Finalist announcement with cover image of THE DRIVER'S STORY next to profile photo of the author (Randy Browne)

2024 #Slavery Archive Book Prize Finalist announcement with cover image of THE DRIVER'S STORY next to profile photo of the author (Randy Browne)

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...

09.09.2025 10:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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!

09.09.2025 14:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Driverโ€™s Story โ€“ 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...

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

18.09.2025 20:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

25.09.2025 14:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Women Who Ran Senegambia How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town.

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...

30.09.2025 22:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

30.09.2025 22:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

09.09.2025 09:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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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...

๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’™ #booksky: ๐Ÿ”ฅ 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
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

08.09.2025 19:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#slaveryarchive is the jam!

08.09.2025 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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DEEP DIVE:THE DIGITAL IS BLACK 2025 Professor Vincent Brown with Fiona Compton and Dr Renee Landell: YouTube video by HOUSE OF DREAD Studio

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...

08.09.2025 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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...

07.09.2025 21:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

07.09.2025 21:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

07.09.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Public Science Call for Papersย Special Issue ofย The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceThe Public's Scienceโ€“A New Social Contract for American Research Policy

Call for Papers! ๐Ÿงต

The Public's Scienceโ€“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

www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

20.08.2025 22:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 86    ๐Ÿ” 76    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
https://www.routledge.com/Museums-and-Atlantic-Slavery/Araujo/p/book/9780367530211

Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past t.co/vSYV2VODjv and and Museums and Atlantic Slavery t.co/TMiiHwbSMQ

20.08.2025 23:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Black people across the Americas have been demanding REPARATIONS for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade since the eighteenth century. Telling the history of slavery in museums is one way of repairing these past atrocities, which is why I wrote this book #slaveryarchive

21.08.2025 19:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My book Humans in Shackles telling how BAD SLAVERY WAS in the Americas, including in the United States is 46% OFF on Amazon. Not many people know this story, which is why we have to keep telling it in museums, books, and the classroom. #slaveryarchive

21.08.2025 19:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Teaching the history of the African diaspora and Atlantic slavery in 2025?

"Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery"
by @araujohistorian.bsky.social
@uchicagopress.bsky.social

Get 30% off by using code UCPNEW at check out

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

21.08.2025 20:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
The book covers of the 2025 MAAH Stone Book Award finalists

The book covers of the 2025 MAAH Stone Book Award finalists

Congratulations to the 2025 MAAH
Stone Book Award shortlist authorsโ€”esp the prolific @araujohistorian.bsky.social !

22.08.2025 16:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#Slaveryarchive book club: Transatlantic Bondage edited by Lissette Acosta Corniel YouTube video by #Slaveryarchive Book Club

#Slaveryarchive Book Club: Transatlantic Bondage: A pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico edited by Lissette Acosta Corniel and a group of amazing historians. Check our yesterday's discussion www.youtube.com/live/uxrN5Gg...

24.08.2025 10:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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2/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: Covering more than 300 years, Ana Lucia Araujo's 'Humans in Shackles' grapples with history by foregrounding the lived experience of enslaved people in tracing the long, complex history of slavery in the Americas.

24.08.2025 14:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump sโ€™en prend aux musรฉes sur la question de lโ€™esclavage | OHdio | Radio-Canada ร‰coutez lโ€™extrait de lโ€™รฉmission Tout terrain : Donald Trump sโ€™en prend aux musรฉes sur la question de lโ€™esclavage

Donald Trump sโ€™en prend aux musรฉes sur la question de lโ€™esclavage. J'ai parlรฉ ร  l'รฉmission Tout Terrain chez @iciradiocanada.bsky.social #slaveryarchive ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

24.08.2025 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Green's stunning Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa will be out in the USA on October 6, pre-order with 30 % OFF with UCPNEW code at @uchicagopress.bsky.social t.co/j73DDUSMKi

12.08.2025 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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On October 5 (SUNDAY), 5:00 PM in Nigeria, I will moderate the panel "Global AFRICA, Women, and Slavery: A Conversation with Toby Green," part of The Toyin Falola interviews with several dear historians. Join us on Zoom, Youtube, Facebook live, and share widely www.tfinterviews.com/post/toby-gr...

12.08.2025 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Toby Green's superb new book The Heretic of Cacheu will be out in the USA on October 6. Pre-order at @uchicagopress.bsky.social website using code UCPNEW to get 30% OFF at check out press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

24.07.2025 12:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@slaveryarchive is following 12 prominent accounts