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Carrie Gibson
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Writer. Historian. Wanderer. My third book – The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas – is out now in the US and 12 Feb in the UK. More info here: linktr.ee/carriegibson76
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🚨UK friends, The Great Resistance is finally out TODAY in Britain (+ Commonwealth). Get your copies now! 📚 ❤️ #booksky #skystorians Or, if you prefer to listen, the audio version awaits your ears! 🎧 basicbooks.uk/titles/carri...
A book on a table outside with the title, The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas by Carrie Gibson. There is a man running with a gun on the cover. Behind the book is a bush and a blue sky with some clouds. A screen grab of a Guardian review with the headline: The Great Resistance by Carrie Gibson review – a panoramic account of the fight to end slavery. An ambitions chronicle spans four centuries of escapes and uprisings in the Americas. The article is illustrated by a still of enslaved people in a cotton field taken from the film 12 Years a Slave.
February 12, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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michaeldeibert.bsky.social
If you would like to learn more about the long and complex history of Puerto Rico and the United States in the context of Bad Bunny's wonderful Halftime show, please consider a read of my 2019 book, When the Sky Fell: Hurricane Maria and the United States in Puerto Rico.
February 9, 2026 at 12:31 PM
carriegibson.bsky.social
Yes!! Lots to catch up on! I'll message you!
February 6, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Just a friendly reminder for any UK/Commonwealth-based #blueskis, #historians, or book-lovers on 📚💙 #booksky that The Great Resistance will be in bookshops from 12 February ❤️
A copy of a book with the title: The Great Resistance: The 400- Year Fight to End Slavey in the Americas. By Carrie Gibson. The book is set on an outdoor table with a hedge and blue sky behind it.
February 5, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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currentaffairs.bsky.social
Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge.

We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.
February 4, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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There is a lot of doom to scroll. Have a quick break from the madness and sign up for my newsletter (it's only every fortnight and it's free!). carriegibson.co.uk/newsletter/
February 4, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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We're on a panel together!! 🙌 Can't wait!
February 3, 2026 at 10:21 PM
carriegibson.bsky.social
Oh wow, I got the double! 😆 Both fabulous places. Enjoy!
February 1, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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alanlester.bsky.social
1/10. Tory peer Daniel Hannan has posted a potted history of slavery that demonstrates how historical understanding is being twisted by politicians. I’ll examine it in light of historians’ research.
January 31, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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Antigua? Runner-up guess: St Kitts.
January 31, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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michaeldeibert.bsky.social
Very happy to have received my copy of @carriegibson.bsky.social's The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas and looking forward to having her as a guest on @notesfromtheworld.bsky.social in a few weeks to discuss it!
January 30, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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brookenewman.bsky.social
In this adapted excerpt 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 with silence. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...
‘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...
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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brookenewman.bsky.social
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!
January 27, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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brookenewman.bsky.social
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
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...
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
www.smithsonianmag.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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alanlester.bsky.social
Ignore the inevitable, instinctive, ad hominem, knee jerk hostility to a book on slavery and the monarchy in the right wing press. This is a better glimpse of @brookenewman.bsky.social’s new book:

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals
Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Take a break from the chaos and enter the quiet calm of my newsletter. It's a work in progress, but aren't we all? Read or sign up (it's free!) here: carriegibson.co.uk/newsletter/
Newsletter – Carrie Gibson
Writer
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January 21, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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This speaks to me.
A sign with writing in Chinese and a translation that reads 'do not visit hubbub of civilisation', illustrated with four people, two of whom have megaphones as heads and two others with normal heads and their fingers in their ears.
January 19, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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Thank you!! 🙏
January 15, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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'In their ambitious histories of slave resistance, Gibson and Hazareesingh are working in the tradition of Aponte, offering a new intellectual and political perspective on the emergence of freedom in the modern world.' Delighted by this generous review from @soccerpolitics.bsky.social ❤️
January 9, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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Thank you!! 🙏
January 8, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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Try before you buy! Read an extract from The Great Resistance in Lit Hub: lithub.com/how-the-ensl...
How the Enslaved of Saint-Domingue Struck Fear Into the Hearts of the Ruling Class
If all the fears of white planters could have been bundled up into one person, he might have been Makandal: An African. A healer. An herbalist who had a way with poisonous plants. A maroon. Even hi…
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January 7, 2026 at 10:01 AM
carriegibson.bsky.social
🚨The Great Resistance is officially out in the US. Many thanks to everyone who followed along with my chapter snippets and photos over the past 35 days. Now you can read the whole book! And I hope it can serve as a useful reminder of the power of people to end seemingly intractable problems. ❤️
Ultimately, what became clear was that there was no one way to freedom, except that it could not be limited to a single group of people. Freedom had to be for everyone, otherwise it was a lie. 
January 6, 2026 at 9:49 AM
carriegibson.bsky.social
It was an absolute pleasure to talk history and discuss my reasons for writing The Great Resistance with Martin Pengelly for The Guardian – I hope you enjoy our conversation too! ❤️
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
‘There’s this whole other story’: inside the fight to end slavery in the Americas
The Great Resistance, an expansive new book by author and historian Carrie Gibson, brings together often unheard narratives to tell the bigger picture of a difficult time
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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Thank you so much!!
January 5, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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In the run-up to the publication of my new book, The Great Resistance, on 6 Jan 2026 (link in bio), I’ll have a daily post featuring photos from my research trips, along with a snippet from each of the book’s 35 chapters. Today: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

💙📚 #booksky #thegreatresistance #history
Chapter 35: Abolitionists in Brazil pivoted to an active campaign of open civil disobedience, such as helping slaves to run away and form new quilombos, like the one in Leblon, or to go to the free provinces that had abolished slavery. Many enslaved people did not need encouragement—they were already fleeing, or demanding pay for their work, or rebelling on estates. A photo of a long sweep of Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, taken from a rooftop, showing the curve of the coastline. Detail of a street mural of the quilombo, or self-emancipated community of former slaves, in Leblon, Brazil.
January 5, 2026 at 1:08 PM