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Ana Lucia Araujo
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Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org

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Ana Lucia Araujo is an American historian, art historian, author, and professor of history at Howard University. She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. Her scholarship focuses on the transnational history, public memory, visual culture, and heritage of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. .. more

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 1d
🧵 3/3 To know + and how Na Agontimé was possibly sent to Brazil, check below "History, Memory, and Imagination: Na Agontimé, a Dahomean Queen in Brazil, In Beyond Tradition: African Women and their Cultural Spaces, ed. Toyin Falola and Sati U. Fwatshak analuciaaraujo.org/wp-content/u...
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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 1d
🧵2/3 The Candomblé house Casa das Minas in Maranhão, Brazil is dedicated to Zomadonu. We believe Zomadonu was brought to Brazil by Na Agontimé, the putative mother of King Gezo, sold into slavery when Adandozan came to power after the assassination of his father, Agonglo.

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 1d
🧵1/3 Amazing! Zomadonou cult in Abomey, then Dahomey (now Bénin) on Feb 22, 1930. Zomadonou is the 1st of the 9 Tohossou (divinized “abnormal” children) of the royal family of Abomey. Filmed (11 mins here just 2 mins by Frédéric Gadmer, today at Musée Albert Kahn (France)

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 1d
Africanist historian Paulo Farias (1935-2026) joined the ancestors. His legacy remain alive through his magisterial book Arabic Medieval Inscriptions from The Republic of Mali by Fontes Historiae Africanae (edited by Toby Green), available OPEN ACCESS ▶️ fonteshistoriaeafricanae.co.uk/books-availa...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 3d
Happy to see a review of our co-edited book Esclavages: Représentations visuelles et cultures matérielles (@cnrseditions.bsky.social) in @laviedesidees.bsky.social. The book is part of the 30-year anniversary of the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project laviedesidees.fr/L-esclavage-...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 6d
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

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 6d
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

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 7d
Thank you historian @brookenewman.bsky.social for this important, needed, and beautiful book, which I am already citing in my current book manuscript. #slaveryarchive

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 7d
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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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 10d
Yes, and now that the bully is unleashed in public, we can also respond.

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 10d
And worse: behind the scenes she has been suing and bullying younger historians for years, always with the excuse that they are allegedly taking her meager and extremely boring work.

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 10d
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.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10d
'One autumn day in 1786, an unexpected parcel arrived at Carlton House, the London residence of George, Prince of Wales. The sender was Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, a free Black man living in London, one of roughly 4,000 people of African descent in the city at the time.'
‘Unjust and inhuman’: how royal family ignored a Black abolitionist’s plea to end the slave trade
In this adapted extract from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met wi...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10d
'The Crown’s Silence, a book published this week, details how monarchs from Queen Elizabeth I to George IV used the trade in enslaved people to boost crown revenues and defend the British empire.'
Calls for King Charles to formally apologise for slavery after research shows crown’s role
Book The Crown’s Silence details how crown profited from and protected trade in enslaved African people for centuries
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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 10d
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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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 12d
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...
Lessons in pluralism from a 17th-century African town | Aeon Essays
The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women)
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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 13d
Out 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-...
The cover of The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas--out TODAY with Mariner!

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 14d
Here'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
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The British Crown Enslaved Thousands at the Height of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. New Research Reveals Their Stories
A leading historian examines how the monarchy not only tolerated slavery but also administered it, profited from it and sanctioned its cruelties
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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 14d
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

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 19d
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

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 20d
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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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 29d
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

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 29d
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

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Jan 9
Nossa senhora das dores. Aleijadinho. ❤️

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Jan 8
OPEN ACCESS BOOK: African Masks and Emotions (Getty Publications, 2025) by Zoë S. Strother www.getty.edu/publications...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Jan 6
Will be there in spirit cheering for @sethrockman.bsky.social !

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Jan 4
je crois pas.

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Jan 4
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...