"every county courthouse was also a slave auction site"
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“They immediately said, ‘Do not mention this to anyone.’ They said to keep researching, but don’t say anything about it because they might be watching,“ researcher Tessa Wahlquist said. “They” were members of the Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders administration.
A researcher at the Old State House discovered slave auctions had once taken place on museum grounds. Her bosses told her to stay silent. - Arkansas Times
“They immediately said, ‘Do not mention this to anyone.’ They said to keep researching, but don’t say anything about it because they might be watching,“ researcher Tessa Wahlquist said. “They” were me...
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August 18, 2026 at 12:40 PM
"every county courthouse was also a slave auction site"
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#slaveryarchive 🗃
Amazing story of real archival discovery & historical detective work, too. #slaveryarchive
I was interviewed for this story about a recently-discovered narrative of escape from bondage in 1831 by a man named Thomas, from Baltimore, who eventually became a sailor. Yet another thrilling story of the triumph of intelligence and will over brute power.
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Tattered Pages Discovered in Storage Reveal an Enslaved Man's Daring Bid for Freedom—and His Second Life at Sea
Historians are investigating the haunting handwritten manuscript, which chronicles Thomas White's escape from slavery in Maryland and adventures around the world nearly 200 years ago
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June 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Amazing story of real archival discovery & historical detective work, too. #slaveryarchive
Very honored to discover that #SlaveryArchive has named THE TROUBLE OF COLOR one of its 10 best books for 2025.
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10 Best Books 2025 – #Slaveryarchive
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December 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Very honored to discover that #SlaveryArchive has named THE TROUBLE OF COLOR one of its 10 best books for 2025.
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#Slaveryarchive starter pack go.bsky.app/Pt1jfjF
November 10, 2024 at 9:03 AM
#Slaveryarchive starter pack go.bsky.app/Pt1jfjF
Le 11 avril dans toutes les librairies. #slaveryarchive
January 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Le 11 avril dans toutes les librairies. #slaveryarchive
The talk I gave yesterday in the #slaveryarchive Book Club series, about my new work *Freedom Ship*, is now available on Youtube. Thanks to @araujohistorian.bsky.social and @elotroalex.bsky.social for the invitation and for organizing the event.
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#Slaveryarchive Book Club with Marcus Rediker (University of Pittsburg)
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October 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The talk I gave yesterday in the #slaveryarchive Book Club series, about my new work *Freedom Ship*, is now available on Youtube. Thanks to @araujohistorian.bsky.social and @elotroalex.bsky.social for the invitation and for organizing the event.
www.youtube.com/live/H17ToyM...
www.youtube.com/live/H17ToyM...
Unprecedented apology by Pope Leo XIV for the role of the Catholic Church in supporting slavery. The Catholic Church was the LARGEST single slave owner in the Americas. Made its wealth from slavery. John Paul II rehearsed a rambling apology in Gorée Island back in the 1990s #slaveryarchive
May 25, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Unprecedented apology by Pope Leo XIV for the role of the Catholic Church in supporting slavery. The Catholic Church was the LARGEST single slave owner in the Americas. Made its wealth from slavery. John Paul II rehearsed a rambling apology in Gorée Island back in the 1990s #slaveryarchive
Check the Black Studies Podcast featuring our dear founding father @elotroalex.bsky.social #slaveryarchive
In which Ashley Newby interviews me for the Black Studies Podcast. Great conversation bringing in many of my worlds together. Very honored to be episode #321 (!!) of such a storied institution. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Black Studies Podcast
Education Podcast · Updated Weekly · The Black Studies Podcast is a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of act...
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October 3, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Check the Black Studies Podcast featuring our dear founding father @elotroalex.bsky.social #slaveryarchive
It's here: #Slaveryarchive Most anticipated books of 2025. Pre-order. Repost. Spread the word. Schedule book talks. Assign. Read. www.slaveryarchive.com/most-anticip...
December 30, 2024 at 2:37 AM
It's here: #Slaveryarchive Most anticipated books of 2025. Pre-order. Repost. Spread the word. Schedule book talks. Assign. Read. www.slaveryarchive.com/most-anticip...
#Slaveryarchive Book Club: Transatlantic Bondage: A pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico edited by Lissette Acosta Corniel and a group of amazing historians. Check our yesterday's discussion www.youtube.com/live/uxrN5Gg...
#Slaveryarchive book club: Transatlantic Bondage edited by Lissette Acosta Corniel
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August 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
#Slaveryarchive Book Club: Transatlantic Bondage: A pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico edited by Lissette Acosta Corniel and a group of amazing historians. Check our yesterday's discussion www.youtube.com/live/uxrN5Gg...
Happy publication day to my @uchicagopress.bsky.social's sibling @sethrockman.bsky.social whose book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery is officially out today. Use code UCPNEW for 30% discount at check out #slaveryarchive press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 29, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Happy publication day to my @uchicagopress.bsky.social's sibling @sethrockman.bsky.social whose book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery is officially out today. Use code UCPNEW for 30% discount at check out #slaveryarchive press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
My book The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism at the Cambridge University Press booth @historians.org #aha25 #aha2025 ❤️ #slaveryarchive
January 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
My book The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism at the Cambridge University Press booth @historians.org #aha25 #aha2025 ❤️ #slaveryarchive
1619 in Global Perspective #slaveryarchive open.substack.com/pub/araujohi...
February 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
1619 in Global Perspective #slaveryarchive open.substack.com/pub/araujohi...
So glad to be featured in the #SlaveryArchive list. Book will be released in less than a month. www.slaveryarchive.com/most-anticip...
Most anticipated books of 2025 – #Slaveryarchive
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January 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
So glad to be featured in the #SlaveryArchive list. Book will be released in less than a month. www.slaveryarchive.com/most-anticip...
If you missed today's #Slaveryarchive Book Club featuring @sethrockman.bsky.social and his great book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery @uchicagopress.bsky.social
2024), you can now watch it on YouTube . www.youtube.com/live/eWCBcQ8...
2024), you can now watch it on YouTube . www.youtube.com/live/eWCBcQ8...
#Slaveryarchive Book Club with Seth Rockman (Brown University)
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April 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If you missed today's #Slaveryarchive Book Club featuring @sethrockman.bsky.social and his great book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery @uchicagopress.bsky.social
2024), you can now watch it on YouTube . www.youtube.com/live/eWCBcQ8...
2024), you can now watch it on YouTube . www.youtube.com/live/eWCBcQ8...
#Slaveryarchive Most anticipated books of 2025. Check them out, pre-order, share, repost, read, assign, and invite these historians for book talks. In 2025, more than ever we need books telling histories of Africa and Black histories. www.slaveryarchive.com/most-anticip...
January 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#Slaveryarchive Most anticipated books of 2025. Check them out, pre-order, share, repost, read, assign, and invite these historians for book talks. In 2025, more than ever we need books telling histories of Africa and Black histories. www.slaveryarchive.com/most-anticip...
If you missed the #Slaveryarchive Book Club with James H. Sweet (University of Wisconsin) on his new book Mutiny on the Black Prince you can catch up now via YouTube youtu.be/v_7AtcMEyR4?...
#Slaveryarchive Book Club with James H. Sweet (University of Wisconsin)
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January 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If you missed the #Slaveryarchive Book Club with James H. Sweet (University of Wisconsin) on his new book Mutiny on the Black Prince you can catch up now via YouTube youtu.be/v_7AtcMEyR4?...
We also use the vast resources of the #slaveryarchive and the social history of capitalism (Berry, Schermerhorn, Baptist, Beckert, JM Johnson, Ferrer, Araujo, and more). /9
October 4, 2026 at 4:54 PM
We also use the vast resources of the #slaveryarchive and the social history of capitalism (Berry, Schermerhorn, Baptist, Beckert, JM Johnson, Ferrer, Araujo, and more). /9
Honored that my book *Freedom Ship* has been named a finalist for this year's #Slaveryarchive Book Prize.
Meet the finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2025. The winner will be announced by mid-October 2026 www.slaveryarchive.com/book-prize/s...
September 16, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Honored that my book *Freedom Ship* has been named a finalist for this year's #Slaveryarchive Book Prize.
"Cotton Machine Used for Punishing Runaways, South Carolina, 1830s," from Moses Roper, A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper from American slavery (London, 1837), p. 51. #slaveryarchive
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August 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
"Cotton Machine Used for Punishing Runaways, South Carolina, 1830s," from Moses Roper, A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper from American slavery (London, 1837), p. 51. #slaveryarchive
www.slaveryimages.org/database/ima...
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I once read a letter from a black soldier, a freedman, to a white abolitionist promising to send her his history in his next letter. Needless to say, I never found the next letter. #slaveryarchive
As a historian, I love and hate this. What did the address say?? The cruelties of the historical record.
11 JULY 1775, PHILADELPHIA: The Continental Congress receives and hears “An address of the deputies from the different Islands of Bermuda,” but as its text is not preserved in the congressional journal, we do not know its contents.
July 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I once read a letter from a black soldier, a freedman, to a white abolitionist promising to send her his history in his next letter. Needless to say, I never found the next letter. #slaveryarchive
1619 in Global Perspective: and why we need to study the history of slavery and the African diaspora globally #slaveryarchive t.co/JCD87bVNxe
February 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
1619 in Global Perspective: and why we need to study the history of slavery and the African diaspora globally #slaveryarchive t.co/JCD87bVNxe
Africans in Japan, part 1 #slaveryarchive @araujohistorian.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Africans in Japan, part 1 #slaveryarchive @araujohistorian.bsky.social