The first session of "Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures," presented by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Harvard Art Museums, begins today. Read more in The Boston Globe! Murray Whyte 🇺🇦 bit.ly/3rZvEih

The Stealth Sticker Campaign to Expose New York’s History of Slavery #slaveryarchive nytimes.com/2021/05/07/nyr…

A $450 million plan to renovate Alamo has devolved into a five-year brawl because some individuals refuse to present a fuller view that delves into the site’s Indigenous history and the role of slavery in the Texas "Revolution" #slaveryarchive washingtonpost.com/national/alamo…

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

Call for papers: Seminar "Slavery, Memory, and African Diasporas" led by Howard University History Department Professor @analuciaraujo_ academic year 2021-22, on Zoom, scholars from all continents can apply to present and attend #slaveryarchive

These 2 enslaved women fiercely resisted slavery in early 19th-century Brazil. The 1st committed infanticide, killing her 2 children. The 2nd killed her owner. Their sentences? Dozens of lashes and deportation to Africa. #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians analuciaaraujo.org/wp-content/upl…

Watch for appearances & commentary from soulfoodscholar and Michael W. Twitty in "High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America,” a new four-part Netflix documentary coming 5/26/21 based on the book by the scholar Jessica B. Harris. nytimes.com/2021/05/17/din…

Rijksmuseum slavery exhibition confronts cruelty of Dutch slave trade and slavery #slaveryarchive theguardian.com/world/2021/may…

Ten years ago we published a highly acclaimed volume "Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade" by @analuciaraujo_. In celebration of the book's 10-year anniversary, we will be highlighting excerpts from each chapter over the next weeks cambriapressblog.com/2021/05/17/pat…

#OTD in 1796, Ona Judge self-emancipated from the President's House. In 1845, she recalled, "Whilst they were packing up to go to Virginia, I was packing to go, I didn’t know where; for I knew that if I went back to Virginia, I should never get my liberty."

The free Black men and women who founded an Eastern Shore village strove to avoid attention. Now, their descendants want to share San Domingo's story baltimoresun.com/maryland/easte…

#research - This week, a deep dive into land, artifact, and burial. Reading: D. Ryan Gray, “Memories of Black Indian Materialities in Colonial New Orleans,” Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 8, no. 1–2 (May 4, 2019): 78–109, doi.org/10.1080/216194….

“A flurry of proposed measures that could soon become law...try to reframe Texas history lessons and play down references to slavery and anti-Mexican discrimination that are part of the state’s founding.” Obscuring history is the same as lying about it. nytimes.com/2021/05/20/us/…

"Nova Scotia became a crossroads of sorts in the late 18th-century Atlantic world & the African diaspora… a site for contesting freedom, slavery, and identity in North Atlantic." Excerpt from @analuciaraujo_ 's PATHS OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE ow.ly/LVtO50ESibV

Award-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman joined this week's episode of Ben Franklin's World to discuss how the slave trade in America changed after 1808. Listen here: benfranklinsworld.com/episode-312-th… #vastearlyamerica #slavery

The The Post and Courier has a new article up, doing its same old dance. This one does mention enslaved labor: "Little is known of its pre-Civil War history, but enslaved labor was likely on the plantation dating back to the early 1700s." Let's talk about it. postandcourier.com/business/real_…

The Institute of Historical Research Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar returns for a new term next week, with the first paper given by Stephen Mullen. Read about Dr Mullen's paper in the blog below 👇 and follow the link to sign up to the online Q&A. #VirtualIHR ow.ly/IHBP50GmJca

#ICYMI S/O to 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕! for allowing me to convene a blog roundtable to discuss what it means to be Black & write about Black lives in #VastEarlyAmerica with my homies Geneva Smith and Clifton Sorrell! #BlackinVastEarlyAmerica Karin Wulf Dr. Liz Covart insurrecthistory.org/2021/07/29/the…

“one-third of all runaways during the Revolutionary Era were women and girls. Despite this number, the stories of these enslaved and fugitive women and the contributions they made to the cause of liberty have rarely been told.” ⁦Karen Cook Bell⁩ aaihs.org/enslaved-revol…

Honored my essay "Unbelievable Suffering: Rethinking Feigned Illness in Slavery and the Slave Trade," is part of the new volume Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery eds. Chris Willoughby (Proofreading=Overrated) and Sean Smith LSU Press lsupress.org/books/detail/m…