Ana Lucia Araujo
Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org
- It's Black History Month in the United States, and today I would like to feature the work of Edmonia Lewis "an American girl of African and Indian blood" who created stunning sculptures like this marble Cleopatra. #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026
- Last week at the Université Libre de Bruxelles: Dr. Liliane Umubyeyi commenting my lecture "The Past that Won't Go Away" based on my book Reparations for Slavery (Réparations, combats pour la mémoire et l’esclavage) at the conference "Colonial Legacies in Belgium" #slaveryarchive #booksky
- Thank you historian @brookenewman.bsky.social for this important, needed, and beautiful book, which I am already citing in my current book manuscript. #slaveryarchive
- It's Black History Month in the USA. Today we remember the late Nona Faustine, whose birthday is today. As an artist, she used her body as a monument to reckon with the slavery past of this country, and NYC, in particular. Happy birthday Nona. #BlackHistoryMonth #slaveryarchive
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- US white female historian using Black Caribbean historians (with whom she develops zero collaboration) to spread defamation via social media about the work of a woman historian who is younger than her and shining, just because she is jealous.
- For my Beninese friends. Cotton spinners. Pour mes ami(e)s béninois(es). Fileuses de coton. Abomey, Dahomey, today's Republic of Benin. March 6, 1930. 6 mars 1930. Musée Départemental Albert Kahn #Africa #WestAfricanart #Africanart
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- Check Toby Green's beautiful essay on @aeon.co, edited by dear Sam Haselby, essay draws on Toby's new magnificent book The Heretic of Cacheu. For reading and listening, and to be shared widely in these difficult times we live in #slaveryarchive #Africanhistory #Africa aeon.co/essays/lesso...
- Reposted by Ana Lucia AraujoHere's a sneak peek at a tiny slice of the research included in my new book, THE CROWN'S SILENCE (available for pre-order now and out tomorrow, 1/27)!!! @marinerbooks.bsky.social #booksky #slaveryarchive www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...
- Reposted by Ana Lucia AraujoOut today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
- Bénin Aller-Retour: Regards sur le Dahomey de 1930. Beautiful exhibition at the Musée Départementale Albert-Kahn. Performing below, a magnificent Heviosso. #WestAfrica #RepublicofBenin #Vodun #film #exhibition
- Next Thursday, January 28, I will be giving the keynote A Past that Won't Go Away" at the 3-day conference Héritages coloniaux en Belgique, in Brussels. My lecture will be in English. Full program here. QR code for registration below. actus.ulb.be/fr/actus/int... #slaveryarchive
- Ce vendredi joignez-nous au Séminaire du CIRESC pour discuter mon livre Réparations. Combats pour la mémoire de l’esclavage (XVIIIe-XXIe siècle) @editionsduseuil.bsky.social 14h30 à l’EHESS, Campus Condorcet, salle 427 en personne et en visio sur Zoom cnrs.zoom.us/j/9311620051... #slaveryarchive
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- This salt-glazed technique ceramic jar was created by Thomas Commeraw, a formerly enslaved man who championed pottery in New York City. Born in 1772, he is one of the several artists featured in my current book project. This jar is on view at the Smithsonian NMAAHC in Washington DC #slaveryarchive
- Are you a historian of the Atlantic world with a manuscript of monograph or edited volume? Consider submitting to Race in the Atlantic World (UGA Press), edited by Araujo, Green & Newman, an award-winning series with a transnational/comparative focus. More here t.co/s3qp5NLQx7
- Nossa senhora das dores. Aleijadinho. ❤️
- OPEN ACCESS BOOK: African Masks and Emotions (Getty Publications, 2025) by Zoë S. Strother www.getty.edu/publications...
- Je serai à Paris le 23 janvier au séminaire du CIRESC « Réparations, restitutions et post-esclavage (1791-XXIème siècle) » pour présenter mon livre Réparations: Combats pour la mémoire de l'esclavage (@editionsduseuil.bsky.social), plus de détails ci-dessous esclavages.cnrs.fr/vie-scientif...
- A new Bay of Pigs. This time successful, apparently. A Congressless country.
- Planning to attend the biannual meeting of the African Studies Association UK in Durham in September 2026? Check the stream Global Africa: Lives, Afterlives, and the Power of Things. Send us your panel or paper proposal no later than April 30. Instructions below asauk.net/global-afric...
- As January starts in just 5 days, here is a Janus head collection (from today's Angola/DRC and Nigeria now in DC, Lisbon and NYC) to mark endings and new beginnings. Happy 2026: I wish you us all health, strength, peace and beauty in 2026. ♥
- Writing on Dahomey. And revisiting Pierre Verger's trajectory in the prologue. Full article here, a nice issue of Luso-Brazilian review I edited years ago. Note: my last name has no accents, and I dropped the accent of Lucia, 26 years ago. analuciaaraujo.org/araujo-pierr...
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- L'Africa e il mondo: Riannodare le storie dall'antichità al futuro co-edited by François Xavier-Fauvelle and Anne Lafont with my chapter "Le memorie nere nel mondo" is translated in Italian. Available here addeditore.it/prodotto/fra... and an excerpt is here addeditore.it/wp-content/u...
- Sudan’s civil war has now displaced more than 12 million people. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/w...
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- "For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back." One year ago I published this article in @us.theconversation.com drawing on my book Humans in Shackles, check it out #slaveryarchive theconversation.com/for-enslaved...
- I reviewed The Heretic of Cacheu (Allen Lane & University of Chicago Press) by Toby Green for Slavery and Abolition. You can download it here, read it, and go get the book #slaveryarchive www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xvlx0...
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- To all of you at Brown and Providence, sending my love and solidarity.
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- Check my new OPEN ACCESS chapter "Healing the Wounds of the Past: The Long History of Demands of Reparations for Slavery" in New Perspectives on Healing Collective TraumaTowards Social Justice and Communal Well-Being edited by dear Scherto Gil #slaveryarchive www.routledge.com/New-Perspect...
- Being able to see and write about beautiful things designed and created nearly two centuries ago by people who spent their lives in the most tragic and harrowing conditions fills my soul in these dark days of winter, and it also brings me some hope. #slaveryarchive
- ❤️ Thank you!
- Ce matin les Prix FETKANN dévoilés au Café de Flore à Paris: mon Réparations: Combats pour la mémoire de l'esclavage chez @editionsduseuil.bsky.social a reçu la mention spéciale du jury dans la catégorie recherche, j'aimerais tellement y être. Merci @fondationme.bsky.social pour les photos! ❤️
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- My book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery @uchicagopress.bsky.social and The Heretic of Cacheu (AllenLaneBooks UK edition) by Toby Green at @blackwells.bsky.social at Oxford, UK. Picture taken by a dear friend historian, this past weekend. #slaveryarchive
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- I will be in London to present the paper "Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century" at the @ihreurope1500.bsky.social on Dec 1, 17h30 (London time) register here to join us in person or online www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #slaveryarchive
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- Check my new essay "The deepest South: Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?" just published in @aeon.co Many thanks to historian Sam Haselby, who beautifully edited it #slaveryarchive aeon.co/essays/way-d...
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- Holidays are here. History books about the truth of American history with discounts are the best gifts in these challenging times. Check my book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery, 680 pages, and 40 % with code WELCOME 40 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
- Si vous êtes en Belgique à la fin janvier, joignez-nous pour le colloque international "Héritages coloniaux en Belgique," dont je ferai une des conférences d'ouverture. Il faut s'inscrire ci-dessous lnkd.in/emgw49tz
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- Delighted to be one of the new editors of Race in the Atlantic World the 18-year-old rock-solid series of @ugapress.bsky.social. Am in great company with historians Toby Green and @brookenewman.bsky.social. The series expanded its scope across time and space. Bring on the proposals!
- On November 15 (SATURDAY), 2:00 PM EST, the #Slaveryarchive Book Club will host historian Roquinaldo Ferreira who will be discussing his book Worlds of Unfreedom: West Central Africa in the Era of Global Abolition (Princeton University Press, 2025). Register now! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Starting in 10 minutes! t.co/e9ELJ3uaiZ
- Join the #Slaveryarchive Book Club tomorrow, October 25, Saturday, 2:00 PM EST to discuss historian Toby Green's new book The Heretic of Cacheu, register here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Heureuse de voir mon livre Réparations: Combats pour la mémoire de l'esclavage (@editionsduseuil.bsky.social) dans L'Histoire (@maglhistoire.bsky.social) du mois de novembre #slaveryarchive
- SPOILER. Proof pages of my review of The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green to be published in Slavery & Abolition. Curious about the book? Join Toby, @elotroalex.bsky.social and myself at the #Slaveryarchive book club this SAT 2:00 PM EST to discuss the book. Register ⬇️ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- What a great surprise to find in my office @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social's new beautiful and most anticipated book Heiress: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery. Looking very much forward to reading it ! #slaveryarchive
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- At the conference "Europe After Decolonisation" at the Universitat Konstanz, German. Will present my paper, "Can Art Repair the Irreparable?" today. Program below www.uni-konstanz.de/en/post-euro... #slaveryarchive
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- One more time thank you @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social Award jurors and all those who attended last week moving ceremony celebrating our books. You can watch all the emotion here www.maahstonebookaward.org #slaveryarchive
- As Chair of the 2025 @clahistorians.bsky.social Bolton-Johnson Prize I congratulate historians Brooke Larson & @thehistoriann.bsky.social CO-WINNERS with The Lettered Indian and Piracy & the Making of the Spanish Pacific World. Was a pleasure to work with jurors Jonathan Ablard & Kaysha Corinealdi
