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It is a great pleasure to share the third Open Acces publication in the book series Slavery and Emancipation:
**The Legal Framework of Slavery in the Dutch Republic and Its Colonies**
by Bastiaan van der Velden
#slavery #legalhistory #Dutchhistory
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
Today marks the first day of Women's History Month; yesterday was the last day of Black History Month.
Every day is for women's history and Black history and Black women's history.
Because these are not histories that are separate from histories of war and economy.
I look forward to checking this out. Absolutely more people should read more about more women.
But even more so, we should be asking WHY these stories-- far from unknown -- are still considered "hidden." Less discourse about uncovering please and more about who and why the hiding happens.
Silhouette of a woman with an enormous updo hairdo, long 18th century gown, and an absurd hat perched atop.
How can you be talking about HISTORY with everything that's going on. 18th century history? Women's history? Waves hands.
Friends, it is precisely because of everything that's going on that we need to talk about history much, much more.
"Galileo prayed each time he sat down with The Almagest." I like this idea that, when assessing the universe & the centuries of human endeavors to understand it, we are in the presence of something that is itself miraculous.
Kweekschool, Paramaribo, 1953 #Waterloopleinvondst
Out now! Catalogue raisonné of painter Dirk Valkenburg. www.routledge.com/Willem-de-Ro...
Altijd leuk om sprekende dieren tegen te komen in #alleakten in dit geval een ekster en een 'raven' in Amsterdam, 1710.
Starting to plan next year's New Netherland Institute Seminar Series (previous, wonderful guests here: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch...). If you would be interested in presenting scholarly work of article or chapter length related to New Netherland and the Dutch Atlantic, let me know!
There are great resources in the Moravian Archives for Suriname and other parts of the Dutch Caribbean!
Join us for this month's NNI Scholars' Seminar on March 11 at noon! Paul Feller-Simmons (Univ. of Oklahoma) will be discussing his paper "Cantors in New York and the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Sephardic Atlantic."
Drop me a line if you'd like the link and paper!
adding to the reading list.
Masthead of the newspaper De Curaçaosche Courant. Reads: "DE CURACAOSCHE COURANT. Deel XL. ZATURDAG den 16den AUGUSTUS, 1823. N. 32. Gedrukt en Zaturdag's morgens uitgegeven door De Weduwe WILLIAM LEE, Drukker voor Zyne Majesteit den Koning der Nederlanden". Available from www.delpher.nl
New publication alert! 🚨 You can now read this Open Access article about women's involvement in #Caribbean #colonialism through their work as print shop owners in #Guadeloupe #StKitts and #Curaçao 1720s-1860s 📰 @silvaperez.bsky.social @heatherfreund.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Screenshot of the first page of Violent Waters book.
Cover of 'Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England' by Elly Robson Dezateux
*Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England*
An important new book from @ellydezateux.bsky.social shows 'how environments were politically constructed and contested, and how environmental concerns inflected politics'. 🗃️
Cambridge UP: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...
Save the Date: the New Netherland Institute's 2026 Annual Conference, New Netherland and the World, will be in Albany, New York at the New York State Museum on November 7-8, 2026.
We'll have a Call for Papers out in the next couple of weeks! Travel funding will be available for presenters.
Op de prent van Amsterdamse prentkunstenaar Pieter van Voorde uit de jaren 1660 zien we duidelijk een zwarte Balthasar, zoals we die ook kennen van de schilderijen vanaf de late Middeleeuwen. Het zou kunnen dat een van de koningen gespeeld werd door een Zwarte Amsterdammer.
Koop die krant!
📢📝 Call for Papers for the Lent Term
The Cambridge Gender & Sexuality History Workshop is accepting abstract submissions until the 4th of January, 2026!!
For further information, please visit www.hist.cam.ac.uk/gender-and-s...
Portrait of Adriana van Heusden bargaining at Amsterdam fish market, 1662. Teaching her daughter, there in the corner, about domestic economy. By Emanuel de Witte, whose day is today.
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Mexican artist Miguel de Herrera, “Portrait of Doña María de la Luz Anna Margarita Marcota” (1778) • This girl with frizzed and powdered hair is probably around 12 years old. She appears to be in mourning, as suggested by her black dress, black choker necklace, and the miniature portrait she wears on her wrist—which may be a picture of her recently deceased mother. • The black spot on her left temple is known as a chiqueador. These fake beauty spots were made from fabric or tortoiseshell, and originally contained herbs that were believed to alleviate migraine headaches, like a compress. Over several centuries, they evolved into "beauty marks" for upper class women in Mexico. • This girl's expensive jewelry, incredible lace collar, and confident attitude suggest that she comes from a family of high social standing.
#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡
Happy Sunday, Blueskiis
Just hanging out at the wonderful San Antonio Museum of Art, wondering about this exquisite portrait of a young girl in 1778
• Why is there a big black spot on her temple?
• And why is she showing me her (not an Apple) wristband?
See more in the ALT...
Peed on Rhodes.s Grave in Zimbabwe
Dat blaauw
In 1758, during the Seven Years' War, English privateers captured the Bremen merchant ship Concordia. The subsequent legal battle preserved something remarkable: the ship's complete archive. ⛵️
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Read his blog post to find out more about this fascinating case study:
ghil.hypotheses.org/...
#MaritimeHistory #EarlyModernHistory #Microhistory #PrizePapers
📷 Playing cards from the Concordia: Photo: Prize Papers Project. The National Archives, ref. HCA 32/176, photo by Maria Cardamone.
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This collection includes everything from official records to the cook's shopping lists and sealed letters still in their mailbags. During his GHIL scholarship, Lucas Haasis (@lhaasis.bsky.social, Senior Researcher at Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum) studied these 'Prize Papers'
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“Mother Seacole” ran a battlefield hotel, treated cholera, and funded her own way to the Crimean War when turned down by the establishment. A healer, a businesswoman, a force. Lost to history—until now.🗃️
Read the full article here: https://tinyurl.com/2ep22stc
How do scholar's grapple with their family histories? Lisa Roney explores this question in a new Commonplace (@commonplacejrnl.bsky.social) piece featuring poetry and poetic research about insanity, slavery, Confederacy, and her 19th century Tennessee relatives. 🗃️
commonplace.online/article/hot-...
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