Ana Lucia Araujo
@araujohistorian.bsky.social
Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org
We are now accepting submissions of books for the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2026. Deadline for submissions is February 15, 2027. We accept books in English, Portuguese, Spanish and French. Translations and edited books aren't eligible. Check our website www.slaveryarchive.com/book-prize/
Denmark and Norway transported nearly 110,000 enslaved Africans to the West Indies between 1670 and 1804, as recorded in the ship logs of the slave vessel Fredensborg (below) that sailed to the Gold Coast in 1767 #slaveryarchive
The journal @africaneconhist.bsky.social publishes reviews of books in English, French, and Portuguese. We particularly welcome books published in African countries and in countries of the Global South. Check the link for more information aeh.uwpress.org/content/edit...
In Spanish! Dear historian Andrea Guerrero-Mosquera reviewed my book Humans in Shackles (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) in the Colonial Latin American Review, a very generous review while we wait for the publication in Spanish, hopefully next year. #slaveryarchive
It is a real honor to receive this year’s Slavery Archive Book Prize for *Freedom Ship*. The award means all the more to me because I have such respect for what @araujohistorian.bsky.social and her colleagues have built through the Slavery Archive Digital Initiative (@slaveryarchive.bsky.social).
🇬🇼 'The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa' by Professor Toby Green has been shortlisted for the @asanewsonline.bsky.social Best Book Prize. The book explores the life of Crispina Peres, a slave trader in West Africa 👇 buff.ly/m9VZ1cU
Professor Green's book on life alongside the slave trade shortlisted for prize | King's College London
The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa by Professor Toby Green, Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture in the…
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Saviez-vous que la revue African Economic History @africaneconhist.bsky.social publie des articles et des compte rendus de livres en français? Jetez un coup d'oeil sur les descriptions et thématiques ci-dessous et envoyez-nous votre manuscript. Visitez notre page aeh.uwpress.org/content/abou...
The breathtaking The Heretic of Cacheu (@UChicagoPress & @AllenLaneBooks) by dear historian @toby00green was shortlisted for the prestigious @ASANewsOnline Best Book Prize. Read the full story here www.kcl.ac.uk/news/academi... #slaveryarchive
Very honored that Slavery and Freedom is a finalist for the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize. Thank you to the judges for their work, & many congratulations to fellow finalists Miranda Spieler, María Elena Díaz, and Marcus Rediker!
#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative@slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 4w agoMeet the finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2025. The winner will be announced by mid-October 2026 www.slaveryarchive.com/book-prize/s...
Thrilled that we published two of the four finalists for the @slaveryarchive.bsky.social 2025 book prize. Big congratulations to @chloeireton.bsky.social and Maria Elena Diaz. @universitypress.cambridge.org
#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative@slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 4w agoMeet the finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2025. The winner will be announced by mid-October 2026 www.slaveryarchive.com/book-prize/s...
Honored that my book *Freedom Ship* has been named a finalist for this year's #Slaveryarchive Book Prize.
#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative@slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 4w agoMeet the finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2025. The winner will be announced by mid-October 2026 www.slaveryarchive.com/book-prize/s...
Check the Black Studies Podcast featuring our dear founding father @elotroalex.bsky.social #slaveryarchive
Alex Gil@elotroalex.bsky.social · 2w agoIn which Ashley Newby interviews me for the Black Studies Podcast. Great conversation bringing in many of my worlds together. Very honored to be episode #321 (!!) of such a storied institution. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
SPOILER. My next book, now with its final title The Power of Art: The World Enslaved Artists Created in the Americas (Cambridge University Press). Cover and publication date coming soon. #slaveryarchive
✨ Le CELAT a le plaisir d’accueillir Ana Lucia Araujo (Université Howard) à l’occasion de la conférence «Réparations et restitutions: histoire et mémoire d’un ancien débat toujours vivant» le 1er octobre à 17h à l’Université Laval (Le Cercle)! @araujohistorian.bsky.social ℹ️ tinyurl.com/muz2fsmv
Meet the finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2025. The winner will be announced by mid-October 2026 www.slaveryarchive.com/book-prize/s...
Recently published in Liverpool Studies in International Slavery | Slavery's Long Goodbye by @cevans3.bsky.social challenges the perception that Victorian Britain was an anti-slavery nation. Available now, you can find out more here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Celebrating🥳 our latest issue by highlighting Crislayne Alfagali's, "Seguindo Veias Auríferas, Formas de Trabalho e Trajetórias de Vidas Que Cruzam o Atlântico Sul." It examines 18-19thC gold prospecting in Angola and the role of African workers. It is #OpenAccess here muse.jhu.edu/pub/19/artic...
VIDEO: Eric Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture: History at "The End of History: Inequality and Discourse in the Age of Reimperialism" by historian Toby Green. Don't miss this brilliant, provocative, and important lecture birkbeck.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
Video of my lecture "The Power of Art: The World Black Artists Made in the Americas" at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University last March, drawing on my forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press and bearing the same title #slaveryarchive vimeo.com/1177132926
Interesting introductory article. Sources include academic work by Thornton, Peterson, Heywood, @araujohistorian.bsky.social , and more.
Isaac Samuel@rhaplord.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe African origins of Abolition: African Anti-Slavery Laws in the Atlantic World. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-africa...
Thank you so much Ben! It makes my day, week, month, year to know that the book still interests readers like you!
Ben Waber@bwaber.bsky.social · 3mo agoLast was “Humans in Shackles” by @araujohistorian.bsky.social, who has delivered an essential, boundary-spanning history of the Atlantic slave trade. Highly recommend Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (3/3)
A review of my book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social 2024) in the Italian journal Archivo Storico Italiano by historian Michaela Valente #slaveryarchive
The most beautiful history book of the past many years, The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port (Penguin Allen Lane) by Toby Green will be out in paperback in the UK next week. Get your copy #slaveryarchive www.penguin.co.uk/books/453870...
Última chamada! Nessa quarta, 17/06 vou estar na Maison do CNRS da USP - Universidade de São Paulo dando a palestra de abertura "Reparar o irreparável" com resposta do historiador da USP Zacarias Tsambe no simpósio Diálogos sobre reparação: memória, patrimônio e direitos. Venham todo(a)s!
Next Wednesday! We celebrate the publication of “Healthy Scepticism” @caitjan.bsky.social’s vital account of medical distrust for our contentious times. Get your tickets (free!) via Eventbrite! #histmed #histstm @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social
Book Launch Party: Healthy Scepticism by Caitjan Gainty
This event marks the publication of Caitjan Gainty’s Healthy Scepticism, a vital new account of medical distrust for our contentious times.
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***History at the "End of History"*** Prof Toby Green will be giving the 2026 Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture on Thurs, June 18th at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, discussing the general crisis, political assaults on the discipline and the impact of AI. Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
I am co-editor of the @ugapress.bsky.social series Race in the Atlantic World along with historians Toby Green & @brookenewman.bsky.social. We welcome proposals of ACADEMIC MONOGRAPHS and EDITED VOLUMES. Check the series great titles, more information ⬇️ www.ugapress.org/series/race-...
"Reparar o Irreparável?" minha conferência de abertura com comentário do historiador Zacarias Chambe (USP) no simpósio Diálogos sobre reparação: memória, patrimônio e direitos na Maison do @cnrs.fr da @uspoficial.bsky.social daqui a 10 dias. Venham todo/a/s!
