Greg O’Malley

The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution by Gregory E O'Malley Historian O’Malley (Final Passages) offers a spellbinding saga of one man’s long and wandering search for freedom in Revolutiona...

Excited about this starred review from Publisher's Weekly!
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Great podcast, Greg! Thought I’d take a few minutes for a casual listen and ended up taking copious notes. I will definitely order a copy right away. It was surprising to hear the interviews’ queries about the origins of slavery and their attempt to confront the brutality of the system.

Many thanks! Yeah, I had no idea what to expect going into the conversation, but they asked great questions on the broad context for slavery in early America.

Book 58: Gregory O’Malley – The Escapes of David George Listen to Book 58: Gregory O’Malley – The Escapes of David George by KTRS 550am #np on #SoundCloud

The interview I did with KTRS in St. Louis a couple weeks ago about The Escapes of David George is up on line. Take a listen!
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Book 58: Gregory O’Malley – The Escapes of David George Listen to Book 58: Gregory O’Malley – The Escapes of David George by KTRS 550am #np on #SoundCloud

The interview I did with KTRS in St. Louis a couple weeks ago about The Escapes of David George is up on line. Take a listen!
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How about front page @nytimes.com ?

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

The average household lost more than $1,000 to Trump's tariffs.

Now the Court has spoken: this was unlawful all along.

The President owes you an apology - and a refund.

Wow @hampton-smith.bsky.social blowing people’s minds with analysis of engravings of Trumbull’s painting of Bunker Hill and the gradual erasure of Black soldiers over decades of reproduction.

Add to that Laura Nelson, with a great talk on the challenges for free Black Pennsylvanians to create a legal paper trail documenting that freedom.

Day two of Black Declarations of Independence at the Library Company with separate presentations by excellent grad students, Simone Gulliver and Kasha Appleton, on Black mothers battling the limits of emancipation in different contexts. Keep an eye out for their research!

Instead of a plenary talk by one of them, we’re somehow getting a plenary panel of Christopher L. Brown, Catherine Clinton, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Nell Irvin Painter. 😳

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Great start to the Black Declarations of Independence conference. Terrific papers by Grant Stanton and William Morgan about Black petitions in Massachusetts in 1774 and 1777, respectively, demanding abolition of slavery, natural rights to freedom, and inclusion in the Declaration’s claim to rights.

Also learned a lot from VanJessica Gladney’s reframing of Shays’ Rebellion as a regulator movement, focused on the participation of a Black man named Moses Sash. Great stuff.

Not sure that I noticed any, but here’s the program:

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Great start to the Black Declarations of Independence conference. Terrific papers by Grant Stanton and William Morgan about Black petitions in Massachusetts in 1774 and 1777, respectively, demanding abolition of slavery, natural rights to freedom, and inclusion in the Declaration’s claim to rights.

After leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate it HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.

Daily reminder that if you don't oppose #MAGA and Trump because they're evil, you can still oppose them because they're incompetent.

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After leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate it HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.

Daily reminder that if you don't oppose #MAGA and Trump because they're evil, you can still oppose them because they're incompetent.

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Excited to be on my way to Philadelphia for the Black Declarations of Independence conference at the Library Company, Thursday and Friday. (I’m presenting about The Escapes of David George on Friday.) Terrific lineup of scholars!

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Spotted by a friend at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, alongside @araujohistorian.bsky.social and @gogogomalley.bsky.social. Love the neighborhood!

Excited to be on my way to Philadelphia for the Black Declarations of Independence conference at the Library Company, Thursday and Friday. (I’m presenting about The Escapes of David George on Friday.) Terrific lineup of scholars!

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Wow, great company at a very special place. What an honor!

Thanks! So fun to see it out in the wild.

Wow, great company at a very special place. What an honor!

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Let’s give Trump’s secret police plenty of data to work with. I am anti-ICE.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

$38.3 BILLION with a B! Think of what we could do besides build concentration camps. What an evil waste!

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Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

Excited to be heading to UT Austin for another talk about The Escapes of David George tomorrow (Friday):

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Excited to be heading to UT Austin for another talk about The Escapes of David George tomorrow (Friday):

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