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Blurbs for THE DRIVER'S STORY: LABOR AND POWER IN THE WORLD OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY.
Available May 7 from
@PennPress
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Is there like a support group for academics with children under 5? Cause I’m near my breaking point.
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I just found out I've been promoted to the rank of Professor! I'm so very grateful to the many friends and colleagues who supported and invested in me--never could've done it alone.
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Personally, I'd rather see a "kindest historian you've ever spoken to" thread.
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Well that's a first: asked to review an article manuscript that plagiarizes me verbatim in the abstract.
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No, university bookstore, I am not ready to submit my book orders for fall on the first day of February.
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@arothmanhistory
Great idea! I did this last semester for my transatlantic slave trade course and lots of people engaged my running thread:
[THREAD] As an experiment, I'm going to try a semester-long thread about the transatlantic slave trade, more or less following my slave trade course, which started yesterday. I'll share some readings, topics and themes, and student reactions.
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[THREAD] As an experiment, I'm going to try a semester-long thread about the transatlantic slave trade, more or less following my slave trade course, which started yesterday. I'll share some readings, topics and themes, and student reactions.
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“Sure, I’ll serve on another book prize committee. How much work could it possibly be?”
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Why are we still calling five hour work meetings "retreats"?
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I heard in a faculty meeting that 80% of our students testing positive for COVID are vaccinated. Delta is not joke.
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A striking reminder that captive African women sometimes gave birth and cared for infants during the Middle Passage: the birthplace of Anne, enslaved in Berbice, is listed here as "At Sea. Lat. unknown."
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The Book I Requested via Interlibrary Loan is Already on My Bookshelf: A Memoir
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Wait, some of you are still pretending that fall and winter conferences are going to take place in person?
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I'm thrilled to announce that I've accepted a long-term fellowship from The Huntington for 2020-2021. Very grateful for this opportunity!
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Two days after final approval, still can’t get an appointment anywhere in Ohio, Kentucky, or Indiana for my son’s COVID vaccine. Last week it was “we can’t schedule until final approval,” and now it’s radio silence or “we haven’t ordered yet.” What a mess.
@ImmunizeUnder5s
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Today something happened that always makes my day: a student told me she was going to declare a history major after taking my class. We tend to celebrate the "big" things like publications, awards, etc., but these not-so-small wins are at least as important (to me).
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As a historian of slavery this rhetoric sounds awfully familiar.
White House adviser Kevin Hassett: "Our human capital stock is ready to go back to work."
#HumanCapitalStock
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I guess it's flattering to see an author reproduce some of the major arguments I made in my (now four year old) book, but it would have been nice to be cited.
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I just turned down an invitation to join a manel (or rather, said I'd be happy to participate if women were included). Dudes, this is one easy thing you can do to make our conferences better.
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"British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
– Eric Williams in *British Historians and the West Indies* (1966), p. 233
The salient fact about the British & slavery is not that we practised it (so did every civilisation in history) but that we abolished it. The salient fact about the British Empire was not its existence (it was the universal model) but its largely peaceful & voluntary dismantling.
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I am thrilled to announce that the Association of Caribbean Historians has awarded *Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean* the 2019 Elsa Goveia Book Prize!
@PennPress
#achcuracao2019
#ach2019
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It’s been awhile since I’ve learned so much from or been so surprised by an article. Highly recommend Caribbeanists and Atlantic slavery scholars read Kathryn M. De Luna’s “Sounding the African Atlantic,” in the latest WMQ.
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Working on fall syllabi? If you currently have a "no late work accepted" policy, you might reconsider, esp. if you've ever submitted your own book review, manuscript, reader's report, or whatever past the deadline (like every academic I know, me included).
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My employer: we expect you to travel for research and to attend conferences.
Also my employer: We won't pay for it.
So much for AHA, ACH, and other 2025 conferences...
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When you didn't do the reading but your class presentation is today so you wing it.
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As of January, I'll be joining the editorial board of Slavery & Abolition. I'm really looking forward to working with
@GadHeuman
, the other editors, and the other wonderful historians on the board.
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Pomodoro method, 2020-21 version:
-write for 25 mins
-5 min break to check the news and Twitter that somehow becomes an hour
-?
-write for another 25 mins
-?
-suddenly realize it's the end of the day and wonder where the time went
-whiskey
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I'm teaching a graphic novel (Wake) for the first time next semester in a first-year seminar. Any suggestions for teaching this genre/things that work especially well?
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It feels weird to share any good news right now, but I'm happy to announce that today is the paperback release day for SURVIVING SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN.
$22.50 and available here -- -- or elsewhere online.
Should I do a giveaway, too?
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"Theorists, Strategists, and Histories of Slavery"
Diana Paton (
@diana_paton
) reviews Jennifer L. Morgan's (
@ProfJLMorgan
) Reckoning With Slavery (
@DukePress
) for
@BlkPerspectives
:
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My digital humanities fantasy project is that the slave registers of the British Caribbean be transcribed and made into a searchable, online database. Just imagine the work that could be done--e.g., tracing family networks (here's a snippet of the relationships sometimes listed).
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An incredible glimpse of the day-to-day negotiations between enslaved people and their enslavers: "Agreements between Masters and Slaves giving time in lieu of salt Fish, or Clothing, or both." St. Lucia, 1831.
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That college professors don't have the summer "off."
What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
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Pleased to get David Alston’s brand new book in today’s mail. Lots of interest here about Scots—and the people they enslaved—in the Caribbean.
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I'm SO grateful that my article, "Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean," was selected as co-winner of the 2024 Andrés Ramos Mattei-Neville Hall Article Prize of the Association of Caribbean Historians.
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Less than hyped that my wife returns to the classroom tomorrow at a school with no vaccine or mask requirement.
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My friends got me a puzzle of my book cover and it’s one of the cooler gifts I’ve received.
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Reminds me of one peer reviewer who criticized me and my co-authors for being too critical of a slave ship captain who repeatedly raped young female captives during the Middle Passage.
Dutch review of *The Slave Ship*: "Rediker seems to have put together the most extreme examples in his book. With a more moderate stance and less emphasis on the psychopaths among the captains and crew members, The Slave Ship would be more balanced." I reject a "moderate stance."
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I'm very happy to share that Penn Press's editorial board has given its final approval for the publication of The Driver's Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. It should be out around this time next year.
Many thanks to everyone who helped along the way.
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Book giveaway for SURVIVING SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN to celebrate the paperback release.
Details:
-follow me, like & retweet this post by Mon., Mar. 23, at 5pm EST
-winner will be randomly chosen then & contacted
-winner must have a US mailing address
#BookGiveaway
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Imagine running a lucrative academic consulting business in which you regularly lambast abusive behaviour in academia and then responding to criticism by bullying adjuncts via screenshots shared with your huge following on a different platform.
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As an AHA member who cannot comment on this post, I’m curious about who “our community” is.
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Blurbs for THE DRIVER'S STORY: LABOR AND POWER IN THE WORLD OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY are up! I'm so very grateful for these endorsements from three of the historians I most admire.
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Some good news to share: I'm deeply honored to receive the Roger A. Fortin Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship in the Humanities from Xavier University.
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I paid more than Trump in federal taxes when I was a grad student on a miserly stipend.
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Today is pub day for THE DRIVER'S STORY: LABOR AND POWER IN THE WORLD OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY, so let's do a 📖giveaway! Retweet/repost (or quote tweet) by 8am EST Friday, May 10 for a chance to win one of two signed copies (U.S. mailing addresses only).
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My new book, THE DRIVER'S STORY: LABOR AND POWER IN THE WORLD OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY, is officially in press with
@PennPress
and will be published in May 2024.
I'm very grateful to everyone who helped along the way.
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My wife (schoolteacher, teaching in-person since August) was notified today that she can finally get her first dose of the COVID vaccine late next week. Best news I've had in awhile.
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When you read an article that begins with "historians have not paid any attention to X!" and then cites a book (which the author obviously didn't read) all about X later on.
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I'm not generally impressed by scholars with super-long publication lists (it's really the quality not the quantity that matters, in my view), especially when they post tone deaf "Follow My Three Rules and You, Too, Can Be a Successful Academic™" tweets.
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Hi, historian of slavery in the British Caribbean here, and the answer is very obviously no (not that you need to be an expert to grasp that obvious truth).
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A few thoughts on this from a historian of slavery in Guyana, FWIW.
Part of the problem w/ this language is how a 21st cent. reader understands "manager" or "management"--terms too easily stripped of their brutality and context.
(BTW, same problem w/ plantation "attorney")
Hi
@TheBookerPrizes
, I really appreciate the transparency. The enslaved African people referenced are my family.
Josias & George did not "manage" my family. They enslaved them. Thats why we STILL have their last name. They were enslavers, not "managers".
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Thrilled to see this article published in Slavery & Abolition.
"Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean: Sexual Exploitation, Freedom Struggles, and Black Atlantic Biography"
co-authored w/
@LisaALindsay
and John Sweet
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Not a bad mail day: first physical copy of my THE DRIVER’S STORY!
Out w
@PennPress
May 7.
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Looks like advance review copies of THE DRIVER'S STORY (Penn Press, May 2024) will be available any day now! It'll be on NetGalley but I'm also happy to put interested review editors, etc., in touch with my publicist. Just drop me a line.
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This tweet blew up and for good reason: serious scholars take plagiarism very seriously.
I'm spending my morning documenting multiple instances of plagiarism in this ms.
Y'all: don't steal people's ideas, words, or data.
Well that's a first: asked to review an article manuscript that plagiarizes me verbatim in the abstract.
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Very excited to join the new
@BlkPerspectives
editing team as Book Review Editor and work with some great people
@AAIHS
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For anyone assigning *Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean* () this fall, keep in mind I'd be happy to Skype in for a discussion or Q&A w/ your students. Send me a DM or email if you're interested. These "visits" are always a ton of fun for me.
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So now we're at "maybe sometime in JULY but IDK LOL" for the under-5 COVID vaccine. Infuriating, esp. given the surge and the fact that Moderna submitted data earlier this month.
#ImmunizeUnder5
@ImmunizeUnder5s
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@JMayenTGU
@ASPertierra
Well, the journal editor correctly decided I was among the most qualified to review the ms., so at least there's that.
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Anyone taught this? I’m teaching it for the first time this semester in a first-year seminar.
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Earlier today I was appointed as the new Secretary-Treasurer of the Association of Caribbean Historians.
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Honored by this award for "a teacher-scholar who, in the judgment of students and peers, is excellent to outstanding in her or his teaching and...shows evidence of scholarship that is recognized and given positive evaluations by the scholarly community."
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Next, we read aloud one of my favorite primary sources: the "Memoirs of Florence Hall."
It's an incredible source: one of only a handful of first-person narratives from an African woman about the Middle Passage. For context and the transcription:
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Looking for something else, I came across yet another reminder that some African women who endured the Middle Passage gave birth onboard.
Somehow, sometimes, those babies survived. Here, Simon's birthplace is recorded as "on board of a ship from Africa."
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Rumor has it Julius Scott's absolute classic diss., "The Common Wind: Currents of Afro-American Communication in the Era of the Haitian Revolution," will be published as a book by
@VersoBooks
this fall.
#twitterstorians
#slaveryarchive
#caribbeanhistory
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Some personal news: our son, Pedro, was born a week and a half ago. He is healthy and all three of us are doing well. (Not putting photos of him online but here's a favorite
@ToddBratrud
print I wanted to hang in Pedro's room but my wife said "no way" so it's in my study).
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Anyone in Cincinnatiplugged into the pediatrics/vaccine scene know where it'll be easiest/quickest to schedule a COVID vaccine for an infant once they are approved? I’ve got a one year old and would love to get him scheduled ASAP.
@ImmunizeUnder5s
@MamaWeasleyy
@CincyChildrens
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The paperback is here! Nice way to start the week.
Pre-order directly from Penn Press for 30% off (just $15.75) w/ code PE14 at checkout. Please share!
#SurvivingSlavery
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Wishing you all a year of strength, joy, patience, and empathy. I don't share much personal stuff here (because...Twitter) but 2021 was hard on me, with various setbacks, losses, and struggles. For many, I'm sure, it was even tougher.
Here's to hanging in there together.
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First review of Vincen't Brown's forthcoming Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown.
Can't wait to read it!
via
@publisherswkly
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"IF YOU COUNT THE POSITIVE REVIEWS, MY MANUSCRIPT WILL BE ACCEPTED. IF YOU COUNT THE ILLEGAL, NEGATIVE REVIEWS, MY MANUSCRIPT CAN BE UNFAIRLY REJECTED."
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Does anyone else get irrationally anxious when you have scheduled events in other time zones on Zoom? I swear no matter how many times I double check that I did the math right I still think I will show up early or late.
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Academic Twitter is doing the "should you promote your work" debate again? Ugh. My take: if you think your work is useful, shout it from the mountaintop!
On that note, my latest article took years of hard research and (re)writing and I'm proud of it:
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If anyone is teaching my SURVIVING SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN (or portions of it) this semester, I’d be happy to Zoom in and talk with your students. Just drop me a line!
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Just read a fascinating account of an African man who endured the Middle Passage to Martinique, worked as a ship's cook on a voyage to Baltimore, was shipwrecked in England, taken to Antigua, then re-enslaved in Demerara. Will maybe do an article on him if I ever have the time!
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Don't Ask Your Employees for Monetary Donations (especially after having slashed salaries and benefits) Challenge 2022
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So, I've never been to New Orleans (I know, I know) and the next AHA (2022) is there. Who's putting together a panel?
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Part of my commitment to not treating enslaved people en masse or reducing them to anonymity was insisting on including *every single enslaved person by name* in the index, despite the considerable cost and time involved.
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Interesting window into the production of the archives of Atlantic slavery. Here a clerk changes the recorded testimony of an enslaved man from second person into first person.
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Well look what just came in the mail! Looking forward to reading and reviewing this one.
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Cover image and blurbs won't be up for awhile, but it's nice to see my forthcoming book is now listed on the publisher's site. I'm especially glad to see the $40 list price, which will help make it accessible.
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Very happy to announce that Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean will soon be out in paperback for just over $20.
Pre-order here: .
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Wait, people are still planning on going to the AHA in person?
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Hey, new followers! I don't only tweet about plagiarism and peer review--mostly it's slavery and Caribbean history. My prize winning (and occasionally plagiarized book), for anyone interested, is *Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean*:
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My radical agenda when my students and I checked in via Zoom including asking where they were, if they were safe, and what they needed from their professors this semester.
To all college students who have their professors switching to online classes:
Please share any and ALL videos of blatant indoctrination with
@TPUSA
at
Now is the time to document & expose the radicalism that has been infecting our schools
Transparency!
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I finished reading
@NicholasRadburn
’s book this week and highly recommend it. Great insights into the brutal business of the slave trade and he keeps the human cost in the foreground throughout.
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Just got the official word that my book will be out in paperback in March! Hyped!
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Some exciting news: I've been appointed as the next director of Xavier's First Year Seminar program. I'll begin my three-year term in spring 2022, which leaves me plenty of time (hopefully!) to learn from my wonderful colleague and current director, Niamh O'Leary.
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Fall feels like a lifetime away right now, but hopefully I'll be moving to LA later in August to begin a year-long fellowship at The Huntington as the Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow.
I'll be working on a book about slave drivers & power in the Caribbean.
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(Just to be clear: this isn't a dig at
@AdamHDomby
's tweet about famous historians--Adam and were in grad school together and he's a very kind historian himself)
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Well goddamnit, we’ve all got COVID, including the almost one-year-old baby (who would have gotten his first dose already if the FDA hadn’t blown it). After being so cautious for so long, I’m furious that we couldn’t dodge it in the end.
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Check out the Call for Papers for the 2025 conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians, hosted by the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad, from June 1-5.
Proposals due October 14.
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One of the perks of agreeing to review book manuscripts: “free” books!
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