It is 2026, and people still think Saidiya Hartman and Natalie Zemon Davis invented historical information in their works. I am by no means an expert on critical fabulation, but it is not a practice about making up historical information.
The team of IN THE SAME SEA is happy to share a dataset about nearly 7,000 enslaved fugitives in Lesser Antilles. Read more at: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsdp/ar... Download at: dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?per... Watch at: experience.arcgis.com/experience/2... 🍀🌊🌞
Racialised Motherhood #PhD candidate @idalvos.bsky.social has written another #blog post about her research trip to #Cuba. She discusses systematic racialization visible in the documents of the Cuban National Archive's miscellaneous collection. Read it here: racializedmotherhood.blog/2026/04/20/r...
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
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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'Racialized Motherhood' project #PhD candidate @idalvos.bsky.social has arrived in #Cuba 🌎 where she is spending two months doing #archival #research about the implementation of Cuba's 1870 free womb law. Watch this space for updates on her important work!
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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My first blog post for Racialized Motherhood is online! Read about it here: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/09/23/f...
Freeing children born to enslaved mothers? Differing accounts of a 1847 discussion
In 1847, Wolter Robert van Hoëvell argued that slavery should be ended in the Dutch East Indies. Van Hoëvell was the pastor for the Malay Community in Batavia – now called Jakarta – the capital of …
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Racialized Motherhood@rm-project.bsky.social · 11mo agoIn 1847, there was a discussion in the Dutch East Indies about whether to free children born to enslaved mothers. Read two very different accounts of what happened in our new #blogpost by @idalvos.bsky.social: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/09/23/f...
Last week, I went to #ABRE2025 with @silvaperez.bsky.social. We presented on the role of religion in discussions about free womb laws in the Netherlands, Spain and Brazil. I found the other presentations during the panel about women in the transatlantic world very interesting and inspiring!
We are here at the #ABRE2025 conference in Salamanca with the @rm-project.bsky.social. Yesterday we caught an amazing talk by Mateusz Czarnota on Conceição Evaristo’s idea of #escrevivência: writing born from lived experience of Afro-descendent women. Inspiring for our work on #RacializedMotherhood
Project PhD student @idalvos.bsky.social recently presented her research at the 9th Global Meeting of Slavery Past, Present and Future, which was held at the @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. She talked about the role of religion in Dutch and Spanish free womb discussions in the 1850s and 1870s.
