What should be the subject of my next book? A history of 'history from below'? A study of Herman Melville and the global motley crew? Or something else? (Art by Shaun Slifer.)

I am honored to say that next October and November I will be the Dai Ho Chun Chair in the College of Arts, Languages, & Letters at the University of Hawai’i-Manoā. I spent a glorious semester there in spring 2019 and I am delighted to return.

As 'sailors made the Atlantic a zone for the accumulation of capital, they began to join with others in faithfulness, or solidarity (...) The ship thus became both an engine of capitalism in the wake of the bourgeois revolution in England & a setting of resistance' Marcus Rediker

Here is the video of an event I did last week with activists Alice Lynd and Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah, filmmaker Catherine Murphy, and organizer Ry Siggelkow, about the excellent documentary film, “Accompanying: The Journey of Staughton and Alice Lynd.” youtube.com/watch?v=hgAaam…

Excited to announce that our children’s book (for ages 4-8), *Fearless Benjamin*, about radical abolitionist Benjamin Lay, written by Michelle Markel and yours truly, with art by the gifted Sarah Bachman, is forthcoming next year from PM Press. Here is a sample of the art.

Highly recommended!

A long-awaited book! Congratulations, Seth.

Coming next week from 다중지성의 정원 (Galmuri Press), a Korean edition of a second graphic novel I wrote with David Lester. This is the sixth of my books Galmuri has published, with another to come. Grateful.

Coming in November, our third #historyfrombelow graphic novel, by our team, @lestermeccca, Paul Buhle, and myself: *Revolution by Fire* about the New York Afro-Irish uprising of 1741. Pre-order now.
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Happy to say that the Korean edition of *Prophet against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel* will be published soon by 다중지성의 정원 (Galmuri Press) in Seoul. David Lester

It was my good fortune to meet Maryse Condé in Paris in 2018. What an extraordinary and singular voice.

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A new edition of *The Many-Headed Hydra* coming soon from Tinta Limón in Buenos Aires.

Warm thanks to my friend Dave Clinch for sending me a copy of his recently published book of poetry, *The Empty Place at the Table*. The book shows a searching, humane mind engaged with the central problems of our time. Congratulations, Dave!

It looks like my new book on escaping slavery by sea in Atlantic antebellum America will be published by Viking Books next spring. It features a chapter on Frederick Douglass as a man of the waterfront.

Can anyone recommend a publisher of graphic novels in France? David Lester and I have published our work in Britain, Italy, Japan, Korea, Spain, and Thailand, but not France, where graphic novels are especially popular. I'd be grateful for suggestions.

Yet another translation of one our graphic novels: *Under the Banner of King Death* (about pirates) in Japanese translation, to be published soon by the Kadensha publishing house. David Lester

With thanks to Dave Clinch, here is a new review of our graphic novel, *Under the Banner of King Death.* David Lester

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Here, for Black History Month, is an interview I gave about the Amistad Rebellion of 1839 to Devin Lander for the A New York Minute In History. Three cheers for serious public history!

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