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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative@slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Stories of enslaved Africans return to Guyana through ‘Voices’ archive, check these news about this new amazing project by historian Diana Paton, Randy Browne and other dear historians newsroom.gy/2026/06/10/s... #slaveryarchive

Stories of enslaved Africans return to Guyana through ‘Voices’ archive project

“These individual stories, we think, are very precious,” Professor Diana Paton said, as a project seeks to make slavery-era testimonies accessible in Guyana.

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Mediapart@mediapart.fr · 3mo ago

Esclavage : des demandes de réparations en souffrance depuis le XVIIIe siècle Par @sabrinakassa.bsky.social‬

Esclavage : des demandes de réparations en souffrance depuis le XVIIIe siècle

L’ouvrage de référence « Réparations » d’Ana Lucia Araujo retrace l’histoire des demandes d’indemnités matérielles et financières du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours. Un éclairage précieux à l’aune du discours d’Emmanuel Macron, à l’occasion des 25 ans de la loi Taubira jeudi 21 mai, annoncé « sans tabou » sur le sujet.

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Brooke Newman@brookenewman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Here's a sneak peek at a tiny slice of the research included in my new book, THE CROWN'S SILENCE (available for pre-order now and out tomorrow, 1/27)!!! @marinerbooks.bsky.social #booksky #slaveryarchive www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

The British Crown Enslaved Thousands at the Height of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. New Research Reveals Their Stories

A leading historian examines how the monarchy not only tolerated slavery but also administered it, profited from it and sanctioned its cruelties

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Ana Lucia Araujo@araujohistorian.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Check Toby Green's beautiful essay on @aeon.co, edited by dear Sam Haselby, essay draws on Toby's new magnificent book The Heretic of Cacheu. For reading and listening, and to be shared widely in these difficult times we live in #slaveryarchive #Africanhistory #Africa aeon.co/essays/lesso...

Lessons in pluralism from a 17th-century African town | Aeon Essays

The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women)

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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative@slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Congratulations to historian Diana Paton (@dianapaton.bsky.social), member of our advisory board, who is leading a major Project to map enslaved people’s testimony at the University of Edinburgh. Check also the postdoc fellowship opportunity #slaveryarchive www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...

Project to map enslaved people’s testimony | News | The University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh historians will investigate slavery and the law in British Guiana, now Guyana, in a new three year-long project.

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Europe & the World at the IHR@ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 9mo ago

HUGELY looking forward to @araujohistorian.bsky.social’s paper in a week’s time! (So much so that we’re going to ignore that that means *IT’S DECEMBER IN A WEEK’S TIME*) Join us in lovely Bloomsbury or on zoom! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Ana Lucia Araujo@araujohistorian.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I will be in London to present the paper "Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century" at the @ihreurope1500.bsky.social on Dec 1, 17h30 (London time) register here to join us in person or online www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #slaveryarchive

Alex Gil@elotroalex.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Two to go! Join us at the #Slaveryarchive Book Club to discuss The Heretic of Cacheu (U. of Chicago Press) by Toby Green on Oct. 25, register HERE us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... and get the book here with 30% discount with code UCPNEW at check out press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: #Slaveryarchive Book Club with Toby Green (King's College London). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Join us to discuss The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a 17th Century West African Port (Penguin/Allen Lane, 2025) by Toby Green (King's College London) Get the book here and use code UCPNE...

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