ERC Project Atlantic Exiles

@atlanticexiles.bsky.social

ERC project based at @unituebingen.bsky.social | Refugees and Revolution in the Atlantic World (1770s-1820s) | https://uni-tuebingen.de/atlantic-exiles

October’s ODNB update has four new articles on historic figures in Britain of African or part-African descent, including Yorke, Lecesne, Lewis, and Durham. Plus a survey of the sitters in the painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention. Read the stories on #ODNB: oxford.ly/46VduWJ

Henry Redhead Yorke; Louis Celeste Lecesne; Edmonia Lewis; Jimmy Durham, and the painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention.

Out on FirstView, Jan C. Jansen's "“A Sanctuary to Crime”? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819-1833" explores how the British Caribbean turned into an unlikely refuge for intercolonial escapees from #slavery in the 1820s and 30s. doi.org/10.1017/S001...

“A Sanctuary to Crime”? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833 | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core

“A Sanctuary to Crime”? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833

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