Published today: The Private Slave Trade in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam by Jessica den Oudsten and Ramona Negrón This book first appeared in Dutch, and is now also available in English through the Slavery & Emancipation book series at Routledge. www.routledge.com/The-Private-...

The Private Slave Trade in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam: On Jochem Matthijs and Coenraad Smitt

An indispensable resource for academics and general readers, this fully translated and revised edition of De grootste slavenhandelaren van Amsterdam. Over Jochem Matthijs en Coenraad Smitt (Walburg Pe...

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It is a great pleasure to share the third Open Acces publication in the book series Slavery and Emancipation: **The Legal Framework of Slavery in the Dutch Republic and Its Colonies** by Bastiaan van der Velden #slavery #legalhistory #Dutchhistory www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

The Legal Framework of Slavery in the Dutch Republic and Its Colonies

This study centers on the Dutch Republic, where Roman law—applied alongside contemporary legislation—was used to regulate the lives of enslaved individuals

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Mooi stuk van @fatahblack.bsky.social 👇 @mareonline.nl www.mareonline.nl/opinie/we-mo...

We moeten ons niet langer laten gijzelen door parasitaire techbazen

In plaats van extreem afhankelijk te blijven van monopolistische techgiganten moet de universiteit durven te investeren in digitale autonomie, betoogt Karwan Fatah-Black. Steek al het geld van Microso...

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* Call for papers * PhD Workshop at @kitlv.bsky.social organized by @fatahblack.bsky.social and I: Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation👇 We welcome PhDs working on early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation to participate. www.kitlv.nl/cfp/early-mo...

Call for papers | Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation

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* Call for research papers * Conference at @kitlv.bsky.social organized by @fatahblack.bsky.social and I: Reinterpreting the Caribbean age of revolutions. Why were so many of the leaders and participants in so-called slave revolts were not enslaved themselves? www.kitlv.nl/cfrp/reinter...

Call for research papers | Reinterpreting the Caribbean age of revolutions

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Are you working at the intersection of the humanities/social sciences and the natural/technological sciences? Apply now for the NLTG 26/27 – a unique 5 month residency for interdisciplinary research teams at NIAS and organize a workshop at the Lorentz Center. nias-lorentz.nl/nltg-theme-g...

Lol, I have writings on piracy that turn up in the pirated books database used by Meta to train their LLM. 🏴‍☠️ This irony of course becomes less funny when the AI starts to enslave us. Check out The Atlantic if you want to see if you've been pirated by Meta. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Today we celebrate the return of light and the defeat of tyrants. Newroz piroz be! 🔥

Ons boek Ooggetuigen van de Nederlandse Slavernij: Van overtocht tot opstand' is genomineerd voor de Kleio Klasseprijs 2025. Een geweldige aanmoediging voor het gebruik van dit boek over historisch brongebruik en slavernij in de klas. https://www.vgnkleio.nl/actueel/stem-voor-de-kleio-klasseprijs/

Yesterday we had a great launch of the edited volume 'The Dutch Slave Trade: New Methods, Perspectives and Sources'. Authors gave very insightful presentations of findings and reflections of the main theme. Great work! https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048560493/the-dutch-transatlantic-slave-trade

There's a full house this afternoon at the @schpvrtmsm.bsky.social for the book launch of 'The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade' -- thank you to everyone celebrating this fascinating and important volume!

DeepSeek3 aan het downloaden. Kan 'm zo in Ollama draaien. De tekstverwerkingstoepassingen van modellen zijn duidelijk. Toepassing in 't primaire onderzoeksproces van mijn veld zie ik nog niet. Gebrek aan precisie blijft een struikelblok. Nut van "Old school" statistische text mining is duidelijker.

Funny, didn't know how easily you could run so much of that genAI stuff freely on a simple laptop/home setup. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjrd...

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Comparisons between paper and digitised wills (central to this week's MoJ statement) are also the subject of a recent 'Transactions of the RHS' article. 'Material and Digital Archives: the Case of Wills' considers how format informs use and interpretation, for pre-1858 documents bit.ly/3DMb6W7

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We are very pleased to learn that the UK Ministry of Justice has dropped a proposal, made by the previous govt, to destroy print copies of post-1858 wills following their digitisation: bit.ly/3WaXud8 This follows submissions from 100s of historians, and others, opposing the proposal. #Skystorians

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! (Kind of) 📚💙 In honor of my late grandfather CLR James's 124th birthday, meet the new edition of his 1953 book *Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We live In* I wrote the foreword with 🧪 in mind! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

De officiële presentatie van ons boek zal plaatsvinden in Het Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam! In samenwerking met hun indrukwekkende nieuwe tentoonstelling Schaduwen op de Atlantische Oceaan zullen vijf presentaties een link leggen tussen historisch onderzoek en erfgoed. Meld je hier nú aan:

Boekpresentatie | Het Scheepvaartmuseum

7 februari vindt in Het Scheepvaartmuseum de presentatie van het boek The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade: New Methods, Perspectives, and Sources plaats.

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Powerful front page from L'Humanité on Jean Marie Le Pen: 'His Profession Was Hatred'. The dagger pictured was recovered at the scene of the brutal torture and murder of Ahmed Moulay in Algiers in 1957. One of multiple pieces of evidence showing Le Pen was a torturer.

Le Pen verloor zijn hitlerjügend dolk tijdens het martelen in Algerije. De koloniale wortels van Europees rechtsextremisme. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

« Le Pen et la torture. Alger 1957, l’histoire contre l’oubli » : l’implacable dossier

Enquêtes journalistiques, archives militaires, témoignages… L’historien Fabrice Riceputi réunit pour la première fois l’ensemble des documents attestant des exactions de l’ancien président du Front na...

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On Austrian radio ORF I shared my thoughts on the Dutch royal apologies for slavery, their international reception and the position of other royal families. orf.at/stories/3379...

Kolonialgeschichte: Europäische Monarchien unter Druck

Europas Monarchien geraten zunehmend unter Druck, Verantwortung für ihre koloniale Vergangenheit zu übernehmen. Zuletzt kam König Charles III. als Staatsoberhaupt des Vereinigten Königreichs wieder in...

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Mr. Good Vibes Only. 😍 Gefeliciteerd! nos.nl/artikel/2548...

Marconi Oeuvre Award voor Fernando Halman na 15 jaar FunX-ochtendshow

De FunX-dj werd verrast met de vakprijs tijdens een radiomarathon van 15 uur, ter ere van het 15-jarig jubileum van zijn ochtendshow.

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Good news today that the Daesh member Hasna A. has been convicted by a Dutch court for practicing slavery in Syria. #slavery The signs of a resurgence of the enslavement of women in the frontlines of the jihadist groups in North-Eastern Syria is worrying. nos.nl/artikel/2547...

Hasna A. veroordeeld tot tien jaar cel voor jezidi-slavernij in Syrië

De celstraf is hoger dan de acht jaar die was geëist.

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Wow! The Dutch always leading in digitization.

Huygens Instituut@huygensknaw.bsky.social · 2y ago

Vanmiddag lanceren we Goetgevonden. Daarmee kan je digitaal zoeken in alle besluiten vd Staten-Generaal vd Republiek (1576-1796). Het is wereldwijd de krachtigste zoekmachine voor historische teksten ooit gemaakt. Je vindt ons via goetgevonden.nl! @jorisoddens.bsky.social @knaw-nl.bsky.social

The first copy just arrived at @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Can’t wait to have the book in my hands as well! I’m very happy with the cover with the wonderful artwork by Natasja Kensmil 👇🏼

Ik geloof dat ik zojuist een ijsvogel langs de hortus zag vliegen. Vlak langs de struiken, laag boven het water. Zitten die hier? Midden in de stad? #Leiden #Hortus #HertaMohr

New starter pack: History of Slavery in the Dutch World. Please let me know if you want to be part of this or if you want to be removed. #slavery #history #dutch #netherlands

_Ooggetuigen van de Nederlandse slavernij: Van overtocht tot opstand_ is gerecenseerd op de pagina van Jonge Historici. Een bemoedigend stuk dat meedenkt over de manier hoe we deze geschiedenis moeten onderzoeken en schrijven. www.jhsg.nl/recensie-oog...

New special issue out - Repentance and Reappraisal: Historicising the Defenders of Slavery in the Netherlands Guest-edited by Karwan Fatah-Black and 🙋🏼 Contributions by: Esther Baakman, Dirk Alkemade, @fatahblack.bsky.social, Philip Post, and Matthew Smith @cslbs.bsky.social bmgn-lchr.nl