Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD
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Historian/Professor @HowardU. NEW BOOK: Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (@UChicagoPress) Also @araujohistorian.bsky.social #slaveryarchive
Washington, DC
Joined October 2010
On Christmas Day in 1854 Harriet Tubman rescued three of her brothers (Ben, Henry, and Robert) from slavery #slaveryarchive
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You are certainly tired of reading that Brazil imported the largest number of enslaved Africans to the Americas (nearly 5 MILLION), more than 10 times the number of Africans brought to the USA, but believe me every single week I meet people who don't know this! #slaveryarchive
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Don't forget: for the enslaved Christmas was a great opportunity to escape from bondage. Today we remember Harriet Tubman who on Christmas Day of 1854 rescued three of her brothers (Ben, Henry, and Robert) from slavery #slaveryarchive #twitterhistorians #ChristmasEve
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"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
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"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
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With the total destruction of Museu Nacional of Rio de Janeiro, a 200-year institution, 20 million artifacts and historic building were lost, Museu Nacional is the equivalent of the British Museum in Brazil. Losing it is devastating, still a disgrace that could have been avoided.
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"Because we’ve gone from picking cotton to picking presidents.” ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 Thank you!.
Chaplain in Detroit on the “stop the count” protests: . “We’re not deterred … The Black vote in Detroit is higher than it’s ever been and we will determine the outcome — because we’ve gone from picking cotton to picking presidents.” #Election2020
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ALL-MALE HISTORY CONFERENCE. This goes for the GUINNESS BOOK of the century! A team of 30 white male historians will discuss Applied History at @Stanford . What a shame.
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April 7, 2019, Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian ARMY shot 80 times the car of black musician mistaking him for a "bandit." His family was in the car. A father, a husband, a musician, Evaldo dos Santos Rosa was 51 years old. #sayhisname #blacklivesmatter
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In his new book, historian Vincent Brown argues that slave rebellions like the Tacky's revolt did more to end the slave trade than any actions taken by white abolitionists. #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians
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Breaking news 😆: A new study finds members of Congress whose families once owned slaves are substantially wealthier than those whose families did not. #slaveryarchive
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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
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Breaking news!!! The Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in the U.S., is found!!!! The discovery carries intense, personal meaning for an Alabama community of descendants of the ship’s survivors #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians
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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
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Two giants were born on October 21: Cuban singer, Celia Cruz (1925-2003) and jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993). Happy birthday!
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In the years before the Civil War, New York police officers sold free Black Americans into enslavement. #slaveryarchive
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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
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In 1998, Bristol’s musical group Massive Attack (two of its members are black Bristolians) pledged to not perform at Colston Hall until the name of the building changed and continued campaigning to rename the concert hall. #slaveryarchive #BlackLivesMatterUK
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The collection of @quaibranly is estimated at 450,000 objects. The @britishmuseum collection is estimated at 8 million works. The collection of @MuseuNacional in Brazil which was destroyed today is estimated at 20 million objects. TWENTY MILLION. The museum was 200 years old.
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Ida B. Wells was born in slavery on July 16, 1862 in Mississippi. Prominent journalist, educator, Civil Rights Movement leader, and founder of the National Association of Colored Women. She became a leading anti-lynching activist. Love this picture of her! #slaveryarchive #OTD
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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
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Remembering the @HowardU Librarian Who Decolonized the Way Books Were Catalogued: Dorothy Porter challenged the racial bias in the Dewey Decimal System and put black scholars alongside their colleagues, where they belonged
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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
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But slavery is not black history. Slavery is white history as well. Whites were slave traders, overseers, ship owners, built ships, they were crewmen, white women were slave owners as well, and whites owned insurance companies. In other words, slavery is white history too.
@analuciaraujo_ Well, the high IQ group don't know how to pick up a Black History book and read. I have no problem finding plenty of information on them when I do the research. 🧐.
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On New Year's Day of 1804, the former slaves of Saint-Domingue proclaimed the independence of their country. Haiti became the second independent country in the Americas. The only free from slavery. #slaveryarchive
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Today is the day Frederick Douglass chose to be his birthday. February 14th. Happy birthday Frederick Douglass, may your memory always stay alive! Will be tweeting about Douglass today. #slaveryarchive
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Two centuries ago, University of Virginia students beat and raped enslaved servants, historians say #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians
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William Dorsey Swann (but to his friends he was known as “the Queen") who was the first Drag Queen was a freedman #slaveryarchive #twitterstorian
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Scotland's first black professor calls for reparations after groundbreaking report shows Glasgow University benefited from proceeds of slavery by almost £200million #slaveryarchive
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France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’ #slaveryarchive
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Dear #twitterstorians: Meet the cover of my book Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past that will be out in the Fall 2020 with @BloomsburyHist #slaveryarchive
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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
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Pro-slavery monuments don't preserve history. They preserve racism #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians My opinion article at @Newsweek
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Ida B. Wells was born on this day, July 16, 1862. A journalist, educator, early civil rights and women's rights activist, she was born into slavery in Holly Springs, MS, and was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. I love this picture of her. #slaveryarchive #OTD
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York, an enslaved man was crucial to the Lewis and Clark expedition’s success. Clark refused to free him afterward #slaveryarchive
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Here is the full cover of my new baby. Could never have imagined that I would be revising proofs & indexing it under such exceptional conditions. Corrections to the proofs now submitted under stressing conditions. Now taking a 2-week break before getting them back to do the index
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Bye-bye Nelson 🤣! Barbados removes statue of British naval officer Horatio Nelson for his role in the slave trade #slaveryarchive
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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
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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.
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I am a historian of slavery + the Atlantic slave trade, born and raised in Brazil. I wasn't taught that 6 million enslaved Africans had been brought to Brazil in school. But in 2003 legislation made the teaching of Afro-Brazilian history mandatory in Brazil #slaveryarchive.
I'm always really impressed by the number of people who have perfect recall of what they were taught in history class in school. I sincerely have no idea if anyone told me there were more slave shipments to Brazil the 13 Colonies.
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RIP Ira Berlin (1941-2018). Historian and Professor Emeritus at University of Maryland. I met him only once when he attended my Slavery Seminar at Howard. His work influenced at least three generations of scholars of slavery and will continue impacting the field. #slaveryarchive.
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No, the Irish Were Not Slaves Too: Historian @Limerick1914 has spent the last six years debunking the Irish slave myth #slaveryarchive #Twitterhistorians
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Daily Mail giving us 100 more reasons to love @DrBrookeNewman! ❤️: US historian leading research into slavery links is an anti-royalist #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians
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June 17, 2015. WE REMEMBER. #saytheirnames #Charleston9 .Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd (54) .Susie Jackson (87).Ethel Lee Lance (70).Depayne Middleton-Doctor (49).Daniel Simmons (74) .Clementa C. Pinckney (41).Tywanza Sanders (26) .Sharonda Coleman-Singleton (45) .Myra Thompson (59)
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Africa, in its fullness: The West focuses only on slavery, but the history of Africa is so much more than a footnote to European imperialism #twitterstorians #slaveryarchive
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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
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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
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In slavery, New Year's Day came with fear of family separation. Harriet Ann Jacobs wrote: "to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning." #slaveryarchive
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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
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Amazing findings! Black scuba divers document slave shipwrecks forgotten for generations #slaveryarchive
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If you are teaching courses on how slavery is memorialized transnationally, consider my book Slavery in the Age of Memory reviewed below and available here
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This op-ed is almost one-year old but arguments still valid: No, Confederate monuments don't preserve history. They manipulate it #slaveryarchive
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Today is the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: March 25, 1807, the English Parliament abolished the slave trade. Still, the slave trade to the US, Brazil, Cuba, etc continued until the mid-19th century #slaveryarchive
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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
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Enslaved people drank, ate, rested, and married during the Christmas holidays. And they also ran away from bondage. #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians
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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.
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Happy birthday Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) who was born on August 17, 1887. Black nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and founder of UNIA. He inspired many thousands of activists around the world and until today didn't receive the recognition he deserves.
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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
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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.
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". 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 ! ♥️
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Silent Sam must go, but can someone explain how top US university departments of history have just one black professor in its faculty? 🤔.
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Former slave in unmarked grave gets headstone thanks to high schoolers, more than 170 years after her death #slaveryarchive
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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
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Have great news: My book for general readers Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery in the Americas is under contract with @UChicagoPress. This is a hemispheric & narrative history of slavery in the Americas centering on Brazil, Africa & enslaved women #slaveryarchive.
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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
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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
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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
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"The revolution wasn’t only an effort to establish independence from the British—it was also a push to preserve slavery and suppress Native American resistance." #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians
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Happy birthday Toni Morrison (1931-2019), born on February 18, 1931. Photograph by Jill Krementz, 1974.
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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
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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
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One century before 1619, there was 1521, the first slave revolt in Santo Domingo. In 2021, we commemorate its 500th anniversary #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians
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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
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Argument that "former slaves are dead" to reject reparations is fallacious. WHEN THOUSANDS of US former slaves were alive and demanded pensions as reparations at end of 19th century, their demands were rejected, leaders were persecuted and sent to jail
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How slavery became America’s first big business: Historian and author Edward E. Baptist explains how slavery helped the US go from a “colonial economy to the second biggest industrial power in the world.” #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians
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Today we honor Luiz Gama who was born on June 21, 1830. He was the son of an African freedwoman and a Portuguese man, who illegally sold him into slavery when he was 10 years old. Journalist, lawyer and poet, he became one of Brazil's greatest abolitionists #slaveryarchive #OTD
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Octavia Butler was born on June 22, 1947. A great American science fiction writer, who authored novels such as Kindred (1979) and Fledging (2005) as well as series and short stories, for which she received numerous awards. Today Google honors her with an amazing Doodle.
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"After the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman Led a Brazen Civil War Raid Tubman applied intelligence she learned as an Underground Railroad conductor to lead the Combahee Ferry Raid that freed more than 700 from slavery." #slaveryarchive
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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”
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#Sayhername Today we mourn Marielle Franco (1979-2018), Brazilian black woman, activist and member of Rio de Janeiro council by @PsolRio born at Maré favela who accused police officers of using heavy-handed tactics shot dead inside her car last night. #WomensHistoryMonth
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"The sad reality is that there currently are only two or three [WHITE MALE?] academics worldwide studying the origins of the transatlantic slave trade – and much of our knowledge about it has only been discovered over the past three years" #slaveryarchive
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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
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June 13, 1980, 38 years ago, historian and activist Walter Rodney was assassinated in Guyana. His work and memory remain alive. #slaveryarchive #twitterhistorians
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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
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Brazilian journalists of the 2 major newspapers (@JornalOGlobo and @folha ) will stop covering news at the official residence of the nefarious president because of constant attacks by idiotic fanatics that greatly increased in last weeks without any reaction from dirty Bolsonaro.
“Os xingamentos aos jornalistas que esperam a saída de Bolsonaro na porta do Alvorada diariamente se tornaram comuns, mas, desta vez, a agressividade foi maior.”
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#Slaveryarchive Most Expected Books 2023: Blair LM Kelley (@profblmkelley)'s Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class (Liveright 2023), pre-order your copy below! ⬇️ #twitterstorians
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Cotonou on February 19, 2022: Twenty-six artefacts seized by French colonial soldiers from the Abomey Kingdom in 1892 returned to Benin now exhibited in Benin's capital Cotonou. ❤️
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The teeth of enslaved people in the mouth of the founding father who was also a slave owner. #slaveryarchive #PresidentsDay
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This young man uncovered the names of 153 of Bernard de Marigny’s enslaved who were quartered at the Fontainebleau Plantation in the mid-1830s. #slaveryarchive
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French study finds hydroxychloroquine doesn't help patients with coronavirus
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