Michaël Roy

@mroyupc.bsky.social

Professor of History @upcite.bsky.social. Author of FUGITIVE TEXTS & YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS. Co-director of @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social.

Les livres d'Alizée Delpierre sont un trésor de sociologie sensible, au plus près des individus, ici les victimes de surexploitation par le travail - càd d'esclavage moderne. Une enquête embarquée doublée d'une réflexion passionnante sur la contrainte et le consentement @edladecouverte.bsky.social

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New publication! Edited by me, Nicole Aljoe and Olly Ayers, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, first published in 1782. Now out with Oxford World’s Classics, with extensive introduction and commentary.

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THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS PAPERS SERIES THREE includes 247 of his letters with Republican party leaders from the 1880s about campaign strategies and his efforts to advance the reputation of those protecting African American rights. Available now.

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‘He became a sensation’: Manchester, England, pays tribute to Black American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, marking the 180th anniversary of a series of lectures that Douglass gave at venues across the region. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

‘He became a sensation’: Manchester pays tribute to abolitionist Frederick Douglass

Annual lectures will discuss work of writer and campaigner who ‘revitalised the anti-slavery cause’ in Britain

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'[...] intellectual history is made not only in libraries, political meetings and lecture halls, but in drawing rooms and private correspondence'. Ophélie Siméon dives into the letters exchanged between nineteenth-century radical thinkers, Anna Wheeler and Charles Fourier.

Radical Friendship and Early Feminism: Anna Doyle Wheeler and Charles Fourier

Ophélie Siméon dives into the letters exchanged between nineteenth-century radical thinkers, Anna Wheeler and Charles Fourier.

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Just acquired: two tiny pamphlet printings of the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamation, published in Boston in December 1862 and January 1863. Made to be distributed freely and to be carried south by Union soldiers and given, in particular, to formerly enslaved men who might enlist.

Published by the Boston businessman and abolitionist John Murray Forbes, in consultation with Charles Sumner. Their tiny form is part of their storyTruly miniature (hand for scale) these could fit in pockets and be easily tucked away. Though they were apparently printed in great numbers, very few survive today. Now Boston Public Library m.2026.59.