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Historian of the Caribbean, slavery, emancipation. Professor Emeritus, Warwick Univ. Author: Between Black and White; The Killing Time; The Caribbean. Editor, Slavery & Abolition

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Voices in Slavery’s Archive: New project to map enslaved people’s testimony across Guyana - Stabroek News By Estherine Adams, Randy Browne, Juanita Cox, Philippa Hellawell, Linsey McMillan, Diana Paton and Kimberley Thomas. The authors are members of the

"Voices in Slavery’s Archive: New project to map enslaved people’s testimony across Guyana."

I could not be more grateful for the opportunity to do this project w/ colleagues I deeply respect in Guyana and the UK.

www.stabroeknews.com/2026/03/03/f...

03.03.2026 18:26 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Slavery & Abolition Volume 47, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition

One of the articles in the March issue of Slavery & Abolition is:

Hayden McCracken, "Rumour, Royalty, Revolt: Mexico City’s 1612 Slave Conspiracy in the Atlantic Context"

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...

04.03.2026 11:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Slavery & Abolition Volume 47, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition

One of the articles in the Forum on "Human Commodification" in the March issue of Slavery & Abolition is:

Paul E. Lovejoy, "Resistance to Commodification: The Question of Naming"

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...

03.03.2026 10:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/events/2026/mar/campaigning-and-counter-insurgency-creole-archipelago

Our next Caribbean webinar @UCLAmericas is this coming Wednesday, March 4, at 5:30 pm:

"Campaigning and Counter-Insurgency in the Creole Archipelago: The British Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean" Presenter: David Lambert

To register:
t.co/AeTgKnd8er

02.03.2026 10:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Slavery & Abolition Volume 47, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition

One of the articles in the Forum on "Human Commodification" in the March issue of Slavery & Abolition is:

Craig Koslofsky, "Owners of Themselves? Tattooed Servants, Soldiers, and Sailors in the British Atlantic World"

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...

02.03.2026 10:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Slavery & Abolition Volume 47, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition

One of the articles in the Forum on "Human Commodification" in the March issue of Slavery & Abolition is:

Tawny Paul, "Commodification and Unfreedom in Eighteenth-Century England: Debtors’ Prisons and the Royal Navy"

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...

27.02.2026 10:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Campaigning and Counter-Insurgency in the Creole Archipelago The British Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean

Our next Caribbean webinar
@UCLAmericas is next Wednesday, March 4, at 5:30 pm:

"Campaigning and Counter-Insurgency in the Creole Archipelago: The British Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean"
Presenter: David Lambert

To register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

25.02.2026 21:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Slavery & Abolition Volume 47, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition

One of the articles in the Forum on "Human Commodification" in the March issue of Slavery & Abolition is: "The Matrix of Human Commodification in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World".

The authors are: Tawny Paul, Andrew Apter & Craig Koslofsky.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...

25.02.2026 20:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Slavery & Abolition Volume 47, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition

The March issue of Slavery & Abolition contains a Forum on "Human Commodification". The Guest Editors are Tawny Paul, Andrew Apter, and Craig Koslofsky. It is available at: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...

23.02.2026 14:34 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"Minnesota" - Marsh Family adaptation of "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)"
"Minnesota" - Marsh Family adaptation of "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)" YouTube video by Marsh Family

The wonderful
@marshfamilysongs.bsky.social do it again. Check this out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRHx...

01.02.2026 20:56 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Some place to live in: Fugitive Homemaking in the Archives of Slave Rebellions, 1816-1832 Examines the enslaved people who rose up in rebellion across Cornwall County in Jamaica, in what became the largest slave rebellion in the British Caribbean.

Our next Caribbean webinar
@UCLAmericas is this Wednesday, December 3, at 5:30 pm:

Some place to live in: Fugitive Homemaking in the Archives of Slave Rebellions, 1816-1832 (Presenter: Marley Lix-Jones)

To register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

01.12.2025 12:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some place to live in: Fugitive Homemaking in the Archives of Slave Rebellions, 1816-1832 Examines the enslaved people who rose up in rebellion across Cornwall County in Jamaica, in what became the largest slave rebellion in the British Caribbean.

Our next Caribbean webinar
@UCLAmericas
is next Wednesday, December 3, at 5:30 pm:

Some place to live in: Fugitive Homemaking in the Archives of Slave Rebellions, 1816-1832
(Presenter: Marley Lix-Jones)

To register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

28.11.2025 11:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Book Launch: Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World by Dr Steve Cushion Taking a class analysis, he links the histories of capitalists and workers in Britain and the Caribbean, tracing the dynamics of profit-seeking & exploitation on both sides of the Atlantic.

Our next Caribbean webinar @UCLAmericas is TODAY, the 12th, at 5:30 pm:

Book Launch: Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World (Presenter: Steve Cushion)

To register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

12.11.2025 12:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Book Launch: Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World by Dr Steve Cushion Taking a class analysis, he links the histories of capitalists and workers in Britain and the Caribbean, tracing the dynamics of profit-seeking & exploitation on both sides of the Atlantic.

Our next Caribbean webinar @UCLAmericas is next Wednesday, the 12th at 5:30 pm:

Book Launch: Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World
(Presenter: Steve Cushion)

To register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

06.11.2025 09:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our next Caribbean webinar @UCLAmericas is TOMORROW, the 22nd at 5:30 pm:

Bound Journeys, Freedom Places: Slavery, Movement, Place, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
(Presenter: Camillia Cowling)

To register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

21.10.2025 10:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Horatio Gates and the Question of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era This article looks at General Horatio Gates’ relationship to slavery. Although born in England, Gates moved to Virgina in 1772, where he purchased a plantation and enslaved labourers. As a general ...

New article in Slavery & Abolition online and @RoutledgeHist:

Horatio Gates and the Question of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
(Author: Kieran J. O’Keefe)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

17.10.2025 10:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our next Caribbean webinar @UCLAmericas is next Wednesday, the 22nd at 5:30 pm:

Bound Journeys, Freedom Places: Slavery, Movement, Place, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
(Presenter: Camillia Cowling)

To register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

16.10.2025 13:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado wins Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

Ha!

10.10.2025 09:26 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Bound Journeys, Freedom Places: Slavery, Movement, Place, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Join Dr Camillia Cowing, University of Warwick, to discuss how a new slave society was forged in Cuba’s nineteenth century through a bitter, transformational set of struggles.

Our next Caribbean webinar @UCLAmericas is Wednesday, the 22nd at 5:30 pm:

Bound Journeys, Freedom Places: Slavery, Movement, Place, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
(Presenter: Camillia Cowling)

To register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

08.10.2025 17:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Slavery & Abolition Special Issue: Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present. Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling, and Esteban Salas. Volume 46, Issue 3 of Slavery & Abolition

The September issue of Slavery & Abolition is a Special Issue:

Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present
Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling & Esteban Salas

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...

25.09.2025 09:12 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

New article in Slavery & Abolition online and @RoutledgeHist:

A Coromantee from Dahomey? On the Meaning of ‘Dorme’ in Jamaica and the West African Origins of Apongo, an Enslaved Rebel Leader
(Author: Devin Leigh)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

18.09.2025 15:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AI tool detects LLM-generated text in research papers and peer reviews Authors and peer reviewers are failing to disclose the use of LLMs despite journal policies limiting their use.

'The publishers...found that less than 25% of authors disclosed their use of AI to prepare manuscripts, despite the publisher mandating disclosure for submission.'

12.09.2025 07:06 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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Bombazelle’s Flight: Slavery, Gender, and Racial Identity in the Post-Removal United States South Recent studies have revised narratives about slavery and freedom in the aftermath of Indigenous Southerners’ dispossession in the United States during the nineteenth century. Black Indigenous peopl...

New article in Slavery & Abolition online and@RoutledgeHist:

Bombazelle’s Flight: Slavery, Gender, and Racial Identity in the Post-Removal United States South
(Author: Justin Isaac Roger)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

11.09.2025 20:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0