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Racialized Motherhood

@rm-project.bsky.social

DFF-funded project documenting and analyzing early modern discourses about women's reproductive roles in the Atlantic World @ucph.bsky.social Website: https://saxoinstitute.ku.dk/research/history/racialised-motherhood/

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Racialized Motherhood@rm-project.bsky.social · 6d ago

🚨 #CfP alert! Transatlantic Slavery and the Archive Conference, 21-22 June 2027, at The National Archives, Kew. Abstract submission deadline: 14 December 2026 📨 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

Transatlantic Slavery and the Archive Conference, 2027

This two-day interdisciplinary conference aims to foster discussion and debate about the relationship between histories of enslavement and the archive today.

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Racialized Motherhood@rm-project.bsky.social · 2w ago

Project scholar @feliciafricke.bsky.social is co-organising the conference 'Privacy and Slavery, Past and Present' with colleagues from PRIVACY and PASS @ucph.bsky.social on 21-23 October - attendance is free and you can sign up here: teol.ku.dk/privacy/even...

Conference: Privacy and Slavery, Past and Present - Academic and Artistic Perspectives on an Urgent Issue

In this three-day conference we invite artists and academics dealing with slavery past and present to convene around the topic of privacy. We wish to generate new knowledge about practices of enslavem...

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In The Same Sea@inthesamesea.bsky.social · 8mo ago

IN THE SAME SEA's team and Dr. Joy Lewis have guest-edited the special issue “Small Islands, Proximity and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean” of the Journal of Caribbean History. See: www.uwipress.com/journals/the... Thanks to all contributors and the journal’s main editor Kathleen Monteith.

Journal of Caribbean History | University of the West Indies Press

The Journal of Caribbean History (JCH) is a peer reviewed journal produced by the Departments of History, The University of the West Indies, and published by the University of the West Indies Press. T...

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Racialized Motherhood@rm-project.bsky.social · last mo.

📣Project PI @silvaperez.bsky.social is hiring TWO PhD candidates for her new project "That's Women's Work!" on Pernambuco and Atlantic Africa. Apply by Sunday 20th September 📨 www.eur.nl/en/working-a... #history #Africa #Brazil #academia

PhD Candidate on the Transimperial History of Women’s Work (1600-1900)

Join the NWO Vidi project “That’s Women’s Work!” on the trans-imperial history of gendered labour: apply for one of two funded PhD positions

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Ida L. Vos@idalvos.bsky.social · 6mo ago

One sound that is very characteristic of Havana, is the shouts and whistles of street vendors. I love this installation by Megan Fawn Schlow about these "Street Hawkers", and I was very interested to learn about the connection between this Cuban tradition and the history of slavery

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Racialized Motherhood@rm-project.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In our most recent #blog post, you can read about how project PhD student @idalvos.bsky.social is experiencing the ongoing power crisis in #Cuba: racializedmotherhood.blog/2026/03/09/r...

Researching Cuba: Experiencing the Power Crisis

I decided early on in my PhD-trajectory that I wanted to go on a research trip to Cuba. The research I am able to do from the Netherlands mostly consists of reading primary sources written by white…

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Dr. Felicia Fricke@feliciafricke.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Co-editors @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social, Joy Lewis, Rasmus Christensen, and I have recently published a special issue of the Journal of #Caribbean #History! 🎉 Article topics include migration, trade networks, commons, marronnage, slavery law, and indentureship: www.uwipress.com/journals/the...

Journal of Caribbean History | University of the West Indies Press

The Journal of Caribbean History (JCH) is a peer reviewed journal produced by the Departments of History, The University of the West Indies, and published by the University of the West Indies Press. T...

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Racialized Motherhood@rm-project.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In his final blog post for the project, our hardworking intern Danas Kuzminas writes about how Barbadian newspaper fugitive advertisements show enslaved women's efforts towards obtaining freedom for their children. Read it here: racializedmotherhood.blog/2026/02/10/w...

Women against the colonial regime: going beyond the enslaver’s gaze

By Danas Kuzminas Enslaved women on the island of Barbados were subordinated and subjected to harsh conditions shaped by the regime of slavery. Gendered discourses meant that enslaved women had to …

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Racialized Motherhood@rm-project.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Racialized Motherhood intern Danas Kuzminas has uploaded his 2nd blog post 📰 After hours spent in the (digital) archive, he reflects on how enslaved women and girls were portrayed by their enslavers in #Barbadian fugitive advertisements. Read the post here: racializedmotherhood.blog/2026/01/19/k...

Kitty Pender and Sukey Frances: Enslaved Women in Barbadian Newspapers

By Danas Kuzminas As I worked through hundreds of fugitive advertisements printed in Barbados during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the research process proved increasingly challenging. A…

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Racialized Motherhood@rm-project.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Racialized Motherhood intern Danas Kuzminas has been looking at #newspapers from colonial #Barbados. In this blog post, you can read what he has noticed about how these sources conveyed colonial viewpoints on the #abolition of slavery: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/12/18/a...

Abolition Without Equality: Colonial Morality and the Illusion of Freedom

By Danas Kuzminas. As an intern, joining the research team for the Racialized Motherhood project, my main task is to examine two newspapers (the Barbados Mercury and The Barbadian) printed in Barba…

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Racialized Motherhood@rm-project.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Project team member @feliciafricke.bsky.social has just published a new blog post about widows in St. Eustatius around 1800 #Caribbean #history #colonialism You can read it here: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/10/31/c...

Creole Widows as the Most Stable Portion of Colonial Society

By Felicia J. Fricke. Between 1789 and 1830, the population structure of the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Eustatius changed markedly. At the beginning of this period, the island was populated by 4…

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