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It is finally out! Happy to share that my article “Returning to Colombia: The Category of Émigré in the Consolidation of Republican Regimes during the Age of Revolutions” has been published by Itinerario in First View.

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Out in print and #openaccess: Jan C. Jansen, ”Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s.“ Law and History Review 43, no. 4 (2025): 821-845. @lawandhistrev.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S073...

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📢#CfP for #PhD and (early) #postdoctoral researchers in #refugee #history: "Historicizing the Refugee Experience (17th-21st Centuries): Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies", Vienna, 25-28 Sep 2026! Extended deadline: 15 Jan. 2026! Apply now

CFP: Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries

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Wien, 25.09.2026-28.09.2026, University of Tübingen; University of Gothenburg; University of Vienna; American Historical Association, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.01.2026 Historicizing the …

CFP: Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries

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Wien, 28.09.2026-01.10.2026, University of Tübingen; University of Gothenburg; University of Vienna; American Historical Association, Bewerbungsschluss: 20.12.2025

The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos During the War of Independence (1806–1833) | The Americas | Cambridge Core The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos During the War of Independence (1806–1833) - Volume 81 Issue 3

🏅 Winner: Ana Vergara Sierra
“The Escribano of Babel: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Llanos during the War of Independence (1806–1833)”
📖 Read here: bit.ly/3PJSokH

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📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:

Pour les nouveaux abonnés et comme j’ai changé de poste (Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland). Je suis historien des Caraïbes et de l’Amérique du Nord à la charnière des XVIIIᵉ et XIXᵉ siècles, postdoctorant à l'@ehess.fr – UMR @mondesamericains.ehess.fr – via une bourse européenne Marie S. Curie.

Henry Redhead Yorke; Louis Celeste Lecesne; Edmonia Lewis; Jimmy Durham, and the painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention.

October’s ODNB update has four new articles on historic figures in Britain of African or part-African descent, including Yorke, Lecesne, Lewis, and Durham. Plus a survey of the sitters in the painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention.

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New in the #ODNB: Louis Celeste Lecesne, Haitian-Jamaican merchant, activist and deportation victim. doi.org/10.1093/odnb...
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Feliz de ver, por fin, este texto publicado. Fue uno de mis primeros acercamientos al tema de los emigrados de las guerra de Independencia cuando estaba haciendo mi doctorado.

Our latest Under the Rubric, "Submergent Histories," features Mandana Limbert, Jan Jansen, and Jeffrey Kahn discussing how the study of #mobility at #sea can isolate historical processes that, wherever they are found, remain at depth and hard to discern.

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4/4 By their emphasis on sweeping executive power, various actors regarded alien acts as an appropriate legal tool to respond to, to avert or subvert what they regarded as challenges or legal complexities of the age of emancipation.

3/4 The alien acts turned into flexible tools of colonial governance. The paper examines how alien legislation was used in two crucial arenas of imperial reconfiguration in the British Caribbean in the 1820s-30s: the push for political equality by free people of color and slave trade abolition.

2/4 In reaction to revolutionary upheaval around 1800, the British parliament and colonial legislatures in the Americas passed their first statutory provisions to govern migration and aliens as such. As this article argues, these “alien acts” were much more than about border and migration controls.

📢New publication!! Out #openaccess FirstView: "Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s," by Jan C. Jansen in Law and History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social. Access here doi.org/10.1017/S073.... Short summary in 🧵

Fascinating new article by Jan Jansen!

"how alien legislation was reused, and reinvented, in two crucial arenas of imperial reconfiguration: the push for political equality by free people of color and the abolition of the slave trade."

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🚨 New Law & History Review article alert:
Jan C. Jansen, "Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s"

Open Access ✅

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4/4 The consequences of their actions were far-reaching and often uncontrollable, as they carved out a legal grey zone that created, in practice, a quasi-free soil sanctuary in the heart of Britain’s planation complex.

2/4 Based on research across Europe and the Caribbean, the article explores how the British Caribbean turned into an unlikely refuge for intercolonial maroons from slavery in the 1820s and 1830s as hundreds of enslaved men and women fled from French, Danish, and Dutch Caribbean colonies.

📢Out now in print and #OpenAccess online: Jan C. Jansen, "'A Sanctuary to Crime'? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819–1833," Comparative Studies in Society and History 67, no. 2 (2025): 429–456. @csshjournal.bsky.social

3/4 It shows how the fugitives entered in intense, and contentious, encounters with low-ranking officials on the ground. They used legal ambiguities and loopholes in British slave trade abolition, thereby resetting, reinterpreting, and broadening the meaning and scope of freedom granted under it.

Could be read alongside Jan C. Jansen, "American Indians for Saint-Domingue?: Exile, Violence, and Imperial Geopolitics after the French and Haitian Revolutions", French Historical Studies 45, no. 1 (2022): 49-86.
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The article examines visions of a French imperial revival at the moment of the Haitian Revolution and French retreat from Louisiana, targeting Spanish Caribbean colonies. Crucial for these plans was the scattered diaspora of Saint-Domingue refugees. Also available at hal.science/hal-04970600.

“Sterile in Spanish Hands”: French Visions of Empire, Saint‐Domingue Refugees, and the Spanish Caribbean in the Age of the Haitian Revolution Abstract. This article examines schemes for reviving the French imperial presence in the Caribbean against the backdrop of the Haitian Revolution. It analyzes a series of memoranda sent to French mini...

📢 New publication! Out now online and in print: "'Sterile in Spanish Hands': French Visions of Empire, Saint‐Domingue Refugees, and the Spanish Caribbean in the Age of the Haitian Revolution", by @thomasmareite.bsky.social, French Historical Studies 48, no. 1 (2025): 37-64. @sfhs.bsky.social

Catherine Françoise Pasturel to her husband Pierre Emmanuel Delamare, a caulker’s assistant Note: Written by a scribe, this letter described the couple’s young daughter, who had been speaking of her father every day, and recounted a niece giving birth. Source: Kew, The National Archives, ADM 97/131, Le Havre, “this seventeenth 1748 [sic].”

#Annales English Edition 📕

'Lost #Letters. Epistolary Communities, War, and Familial Ties in the #Maritime Atlantic World of the Eighteenth Century'

by Renaud Morieux (@renaudmorieux.bsky.social)

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