Next in the line. Then four more to go.

RIP Valentin-Yves Mudimbe (1941-2025) ❤️

RIP ❤️ Professor Kiah Duggins was among those lost in the mid-air plane collision at Reagan National Airport. Professor Duggins was set to begin a new chapter as a professor at Howard University School of Law this fall. May her memory be a blessing.

Breaking news 😆: A new study finds members of Congress whose families once owned slaves are substantially wealthier than those whose families did not. #slaveryarchive thehill.com/newsletters/sustainability/483...

Very happy to hold the heavy galleys of my book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery that will be out with @UChicagoPress on October 19. Writers and journalists wanting to review it in newspapers and other outlets let me know or contact the press #slaveryarchive

Two books by two Africanist historians, I can't wait to read. #slaveryarchive

Meu livro Reparações para escravidão e o comércio de escravizados: Uma história transnational e comparativa. Com duas edições em inglês. Provavelmente seja traduzido em francês antes do português, pois no Brasil não existe interesse no assunto. #slaveryarchive

France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’ #slaveryarchive www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/18/hait...

The LARGEST number of enslaved Africans were transported to BRAZIL, nearly 6 MILLION. My book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (@UChicagoPress October 2024) draws on this fact to tell the history of slavery in the Americas #slaveryarchive press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/...Mostrar mais

This is the cover of my Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery coming out with @UChicagoPress in October 2024. Grateful to my excellent editor @dylanmontanari + a few dear historians who supported me along the way. Pre-order ⬇️ + details soon press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/...Mostrar mais

If you are teaching courses on how slavery is memorialized transnationally, consider my book Slavery in the Age of Memory reviewed below muse.jhu.edu/article/862988 and available here www.bloomsbury.com/us/slavery-in-the-age-o...

My THE GIFT: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism coming out in the UK in print in November 2023 has a cover. #slaveryarchive #red #vermelhou #twitterstorians www.cambridge.org/core/books/gift/62EDFCC0...

"Today I'm standing here in front of you as your king and as part of the government. Today I am apologizing myself," Dutch King Willem-Alexander becomes the 1st European monarch to apologize for the role of his nation in the Atlantic slave trade and slavery. #slaveryarchive

Academic historians, help me spread the word! 👇 #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians

Daily Mail giving us 100 more reasons to love @DrBrookeNewman! ❤️: US historian leading research into slavery links is an anti-royalist #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians mol.im/a/11945707

Douglass on reparations 1891: “the nation has sinned against the Negro. It robbed him of the rewards of his labor during more than two hundred years, and its repentance will not be genuine and complete till according to the measure of its ability, it shall have made restitution”

Sent today to the press.🎉🌞 #slaveryarchive

Bolsonaro did not attend @LulaOficial's inauguration today, and the symbolic passage of power was then made by the people: Black, Indigenous, women, feminist, disabled worker. An enormous shift after four years of fascist nightmare.

RUN! For enslaved people in the US, Christmas was a great opportunity to escape from slavery. This year we remember again Harriet Tubman who on #ChristmasDay 1854 rescued 3 of her brothers (Ben, Henry, and Robert) from slavery #slaveryarchive #twitterhistorians #MerryChristmas

Descendant: new documentary film on @netflix tells story of descendants of Africans brought to the US on board of CLOTILDA, last known slave ship to transport enslaved Africans from Ouidah (Dahomey) in 1860 #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians #TheWomanKing youtu.be/2M8ESS9hSAQMostrar mais

This is a difficult story to tell. My take as a historian of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade on the movie @WomanKingMovie #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians slate.com/culture/2022/09/woman-king-movie...Mostrar mais

New Latino Arts Project exhibit explores the legacy of slavery in Mexico #slaveryarchive www.cbsnews.com/dfw/news/new-latino-arts-p...

March 25: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Of the 12 million enslaved Africans brought to the Americas, + than 5 million were transported to BRAZIL by Brazilian + Portuguese slave merchants #slaveryarchive @slavevoyages

I finished my manuscript Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery in February. The manuscript followed me during the 24 months of the pandemic. Almost 200k words. Writing kept me pushing in these dire times. Next in the caring hands of reviewers. #twitterstorians

Only Murders in the Building is a funny series to start the new year. Also, I need all the Chelsea boots Selena Gomez (Mabel) is wearing in the various episodes.

Enslaved people drank, ate, rested, and married during the Christmas holidays. And they also ran away from bondage. #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians docsouth.unc.edu/highlights/holidays.html

One century before 1619, there was 1521, the first slave revolt in Santo Domingo. In 2021, we commemorate its 500th anniversary #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/spirit-resista...

"Barbados is to build a transatlantic slavery museum with the largest collection of British slave records outside the UK, the island’s prime minister has announced days after the country cut ties with the monarchy to become a republic" #slaveryarchive www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/...Mostrar mais

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"Lloyd's and the Bank of England have each hired a historian to delve into their roles in the slave trade and are planning on publicizing the results in the next year" #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians www.reuters.com/world/uk/londons-finance-d...Mostrar mais

May 13, 1888: slavery is legally abolished in Brazil. Brazil was the last country in the Americas to legally abolish slavery. This photograph in a coffee plantation was taken by Marc Ferrez, in 1885, just 3 years before the abolition. #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians

Today January 24-25 is the anniversary of the Malê Rebellion of 1835 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The largest slave revolt in the Americas, led by Muslim enslaved men. Thank you @apagliar + @JacobinBrasil for the reminder! #twitterstorians #slaveryarchive

For the first time in one year, we are having the right to mourn and cry, together, the 400k dead men, women, and children. Biden said: "To heal, we must remember." This is why I am a historian and this is why I study memory. We will not forget.

CNN reports: "The first ever index of investors in Britain's extensive slave trade is being compiled by academics, after the project received £1 million ($1.4 million) in funding from the UK government." #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians www.cnn.com/2020/12/28/uk/britain-slave-tr...Mostrar mais

Bye-bye Nelson 🤣! Barbados removes statue of British naval officer Horatio Nelson for his role in the slave trade #slaveryarchive globalvoices.org/2020/11/18/barbados-remov...

REPARATIONS: Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion protesters have draped a huge banner off the Houses of Parliament today as they called for reparations for slavery. #slaveryarchive www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8941553/T...Mostrar mais

Group of scholars suggests marking maps and charts as virtual memorial to the estimated 1.8 million Africans who lost their lives at sea during the Atlantic slave trade + the 11 million who completed the voyage and were sold into slavery #slaveryarchive today.duke.edu/2020/11/group-urges-atlanti...Mostrar mais

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Schuyler Mansion works to show Hamilton’s role in slavery/slave trade: "Not only did Alexander Hamilton enslaved people, but his involvement in the institution of slavery was essential to his identity, both personally and professionally" #slaveryarchive dailygazette.com/2020/10/24/schuyler-mansi...Mostrar mais

New hidden slave trade sites in Wales revealed #slaveryarchive www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54641987

Honoring the enslaved women experimented on by the 'father of gynecology' #slaveryarchive theconversation.com/honouring-the-slaves-e...

In the years before the Civil War, New York police officers sold free Black Americans into enslavement. #slaveryarchive www.smithsonianmag.com/history/so-called-k...

My new book Slavery In the Age of Memory just arrived! Thank you @BloomsburyHist! So happy to hold it in my hands and the cover is all that it promised on screen! 🎉#twitterstorians @womnknowhistory #slaveryarchive

Amazing findings! Black scuba divers document slave shipwrecks forgotten for generations #slaveryarchive abcn.ws/2Fd38XR

"...to this day no former slave society in the Americas, no former slaves or their descendants, and no African nation, has ever obtained any form of reparations for the Atlantic slave trade" thank you for citing me @afuahirsch ! ♥️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul...Mostrar mais

Pro-slavery monuments don't preserve history. They preserve racism #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians My opinion article at @Newsweek www.newsweek.com/pro-slavery-monuments-don...

White Americans must understand that slavery is not about black history. It is American history. It is the history of the victims and the perpetrators, and in order to not keep repeating the atrocities of the past, we need to know this history www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/06...Mostrar mais

I contributed to this excellent @washingtonpost 7-min video discussing why statues of slavers, Confederate generals and more are being targeted in worldwide anti-racist protests. Great tool to discuss these topics in the classroom. #slaveryarchive www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/why-pro...Mostrar mais

This op-ed is almost one-year old but arguments still valid: No, Confederate monuments don't preserve history. They manipulate it #slaveryarchive www.newsweek.com/no-confederate-monuments-...

In Lagos, Portugal (1st European slave port, where a golf course covers the oldest European burial ground of enslaved Africans) the statue of Infante Dom Henrique who propelled Portuguese exploration of the African coast in the 15th century got a new intervention! #slaveryarchive