We are accepting submissions of books for the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2026. We accept books in English, Portuguese, Spanish and French. Translations and edited books aren't eligible. Deadline: February 15, 2027. For more information visit our website www.slaveryarchive.com/book-prize/

We are now accepting submissions of books for the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2026. Deadline for submissions is February 15, 2027. We accept books in English, Portuguese, Spanish and French. Translations and edited books aren't eligible. Check our website www.slaveryarchive.com/book-prize/

Denmark and Norway transported nearly 110,000 enslaved Africans to the West Indies between 1670 and 1804, as recorded in the ship logs of the slave vessel Fredensborg (below) that sailed to the Gold Coast in 1767 #slaveryarchive

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In Spanish! Dear historian Andrea Guerrero-Mosquera reviewed my book Humans in Shackles (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) in the Colonial Latin American Review, a very generous review while we wait for the publication in Spanish, hopefully next year. #slaveryarchive

Join us in congratulating historian Marcus Rediker (here as @marcusrediker.bsky.social), whose pathbreaking book Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery By Sea (Viking 2025) is the 2025 Winner of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize.

Join us in congratulating historian Mariana P. Candido , member of the @slaveryarchive.bsky.social international advisory board who was awarded the Volkswagen Foundation Transatlantic Bridge Professorship. #slaveryarchive

We also use the vast resources of the #slaveryarchive and the social history of capitalism (Berry, Schermerhorn, Baptist, Beckert, JM Johnson, Ferrer, Araujo, and more). /9

The breathtaking The Heretic of Cacheu (@UChicagoPress & @AllenLaneBooks) by dear historian @toby00green was shortlisted for the prestigious @ASANewsOnline Best Book Prize. Read the full story here www.kcl.ac.uk/news/academi... #slaveryarchive

Check the Black Studies Podcast featuring our dear founding father @elotroalex.bsky.social #slaveryarchive

SPOILER. My next book, now with its final title The Power of Art: The World Enslaved Artists Created in the Americas (Cambridge University Press). Cover and publication date coming soon. #slaveryarchive

Very honored that Slavery and Freedom is a finalist for the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize. Thank you to the judges for their work, & many congratulations to fellow finalists Miranda Spieler, María Elena Díaz, and Marcus Rediker!

Honored that my book *Freedom Ship* has been named a finalist for this year's #Slaveryarchive Book Prize.

Meet the finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2025. The winner will be announced by mid-October 2026 www.slaveryarchive.com/book-prize/s...