Heirs of Slavery
@heirsofslavery.bsky.social
A group of people who have acknowledged their ancestors’ involvement in transatlantic chattel enslavement. Seeking to support true history-telling, anti-racism & reparative justice.
Still learning.
https://www.heirsofslavery.org/
Still learning.
https://www.heirsofslavery.org/
Jamaican government official appeal site for the Hurricane Melissa recovery - 400,000 in need, as of this morning.
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica – Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Portal
Join hands with the Government of Jamaica. Support national disaster relief, locate shelters,
and stay informed on Hurricane Melissa updates.
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Jamaican government official appeal site for the Hurricane Melissa recovery - 400,000 in need, as of this morning.
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
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1st October, St Pancras New Church, Euston, London at 7pm - free, but register below.
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The Rivers of Repair
This Black History Month UK 2025, A powerful live event exploring Britain’s 400-year involvement in the Caribbean, through Word & Music
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September 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
1st October, St Pancras New Church, Euston, London at 7pm - free, but register below.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rivers...
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234 years ago, enslaved men and women rose in revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. They secured the first permanent abolition of slavery, and eventually declared Haitian independence on January 1, 1804. 🇭🇹
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
Perspective | Haiti was the first nation to permanently ban slavery
Why this matters today
www.washingtonpost.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
234 years ago, enslaved men and women rose in revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. They secured the first permanent abolition of slavery, and eventually declared Haitian independence on January 1, 1804. 🇭🇹
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
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Finally! My copy of #Heiresses has arrived! Grateful for generous endorsements from @anitaanand.bsky.social @axrenton.bsky.social @patersonjoseph.bsky.social @corinnefowler.bsky.social @alanlester.bsky.social & the late great Marika Sherwood.
August 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Finally! My copy of #Heiresses has arrived! Grateful for generous endorsements from @anitaanand.bsky.social @axrenton.bsky.social @patersonjoseph.bsky.social @corinnefowler.bsky.social @alanlester.bsky.social & the late great Marika Sherwood.
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This is very good indeed
... out early next month. Brilliant work by @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social
... out early next month. Brilliant work by @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This is very good indeed
... out early next month. Brilliant work by @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social
... out early next month. Brilliant work by @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social
RIP Sir Geoff Palmer - ‘You can’t change the history, but you can still change its consequences.”
‘Intellectual giant’, sure, but also one of the kindest, funniest, wisest people I’ve known - a friend and an inspiration and guide in my life and work. So long, Geoff. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sir Geoff Palmer, Scotland's first black professor, dies aged 85
Sir Geoff moved to the UK from Jamaica as a teenager and became known as both an academic and a human rights advocate.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
RIP Sir Geoff Palmer - ‘You can’t change the history, but you can still change its consequences.”
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Genuinely astonishing. You could almost believe in telepathy.
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Genuinely astonishing. You could almost believe in telepathy.
We're holding another series of free online workshops for 'heirs' to discuss the legacies of transatlantic enslavement and ideas for repair with activists and experts. Email via the website for more info. www.heirsofslavery.org
HEIRS OF SLAVERY
We are a small group of British people who have researched their family histories, and learned that their ancestors made significant wealth from, or helped organise, more than two centuries of industr...
www.heirsofslavery.org
April 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We're holding another series of free online workshops for 'heirs' to discuss the legacies of transatlantic enslavement and ideas for repair with activists and experts. Email via the website for more info. www.heirsofslavery.org
Happy birthday to the wonderful Sir Geoff Palmer, 85 today - as kind, wise and generous a great Briton as you could hope to meet. Plus - thanks for sorting out the beer!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_P...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_P...
Geoff Palmer (scientist) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Happy birthday to the wonderful Sir Geoff Palmer, 85 today - as kind, wise and generous a great Briton as you could hope to meet. Plus - thanks for sorting out the beer!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_P...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_P...
Heirs of Slavery is now more than 250 people addressing the fact that their ancestors were enriched by transatlantic enslavement. We hold learning workshops and we support calls for reparative justice.
What next?
Help us by clicking the questionnaire link on this page
www.heirsofslavery.org
What next?
Help us by clicking the questionnaire link on this page
www.heirsofslavery.org
HEIRS OF SLAVERY
We are a small group of British people who have researched their family histories, and learned that their ancestors made significant wealth from, or helped organise, more than two centuries of industr...
www.heirsofslavery.org
March 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Heirs of Slavery is now more than 250 people addressing the fact that their ancestors were enriched by transatlantic enslavement. We hold learning workshops and we support calls for reparative justice.
What next?
Help us by clicking the questionnaire link on this page
www.heirsofslavery.org
What next?
Help us by clicking the questionnaire link on this page
www.heirsofslavery.org
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Introducing The Big Payback by me and Marcus Ryder.
This is the eye-opening case for reparations for slavery and how they would work, featuring leading experts, economists and campaigners.
Pre-order now: linktr.ee/the_big_payback
Cover features work by Aaron Douglas.
This is the eye-opening case for reparations for slavery and how they would work, featuring leading experts, economists and campaigners.
Pre-order now: linktr.ee/the_big_payback
Cover features work by Aaron Douglas.
March 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Introducing The Big Payback by me and Marcus Ryder.
This is the eye-opening case for reparations for slavery and how they would work, featuring leading experts, economists and campaigners.
Pre-order now: linktr.ee/the_big_payback
Cover features work by Aaron Douglas.
This is the eye-opening case for reparations for slavery and how they would work, featuring leading experts, economists and campaigners.
Pre-order now: linktr.ee/the_big_payback
Cover features work by Aaron Douglas.
18 months ago we launched Heirs of Slavery - now we have over 250 'heirs' - people whose ancestors gained from transatlantic enslavement.
We hold workshops for these people and we support calls for reparative justice.
What more could, or should, we do? Link to questionnaire on this page...
We hold workshops for these people and we support calls for reparative justice.
What more could, or should, we do? Link to questionnaire on this page...
March 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
18 months ago we launched Heirs of Slavery - now we have over 250 'heirs' - people whose ancestors gained from transatlantic enslavement.
We hold workshops for these people and we support calls for reparative justice.
What more could, or should, we do? Link to questionnaire on this page...
We hold workshops for these people and we support calls for reparative justice.
What more could, or should, we do? Link to questionnaire on this page...
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Writing White Lives: What compels people to investigate their ancestors’ role as slave-owners? How do they go about it? What do they hope that their research will achieve? And what has been the impact on them and their family?
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www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-sl...
Writing (Slavery-linked) White Lives
Presented by the Centre for Life Writing and Oral History, with the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre, at London Met.
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February 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Writing White Lives: What compels people to investigate their ancestors’ role as slave-owners? How do they go about it? What do they hope that their research will achieve? And what has been the impact on them and their family?
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-sl...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-sl...
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If you dig this, seek out Simon Newman's Freedom Seekers. It's an excellent book on this topic and won the Frederick Douglass prize in 2023. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Freedom Seekers
Freedom Seekers reveals the hidden stories of Britain’s enslaved people and their liberation. This book brings the history of slavery in England to light, revealing the powerful untold stories of resi...
press.uchicago.edu
February 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
If you dig this, seek out Simon Newman's Freedom Seekers. It's an excellent book on this topic and won the Frederick Douglass prize in 2023. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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One of the great myths of 19th century British moral superiority, post-abolition of slavery. We exploited the Africans the Navy 'saved'. None of them went home.
Looking forward to @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social new book.
Looking forward to @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social new book.
Around 200,000 captives were intercepted aboard illegal transatlantic slave ships in the 1800s, mostly by the British navy
I wrote about this history in The Last Slave Ships but Jake Richards’ forthcoming book is the one you want to check out
Here’s my blurb… /1
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
I wrote about this history in The Last Slave Ships but Jake Richards’ forthcoming book is the one you want to check out
Here’s my blurb… /1
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
The Bonds of Freedom
The story of the long fight for freedom of African captives rescued from the illegal slave trade only to be forced back into bondage The Bonds of Freedom t...
yalebooks.yale.edu
March 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
One of the great myths of 19th century British moral superiority, post-abolition of slavery. We exploited the Africans the Navy 'saved'. None of them went home.
Looking forward to @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social new book.
Looking forward to @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social new book.
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Fascinating new research and exhibition about Black enslaved & indentured people who escaped their ‘owners’ and ‘masters’ in C18 London, and the ‘safe houses’ that helped them avoid recapture:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Researchers uncover stories of Black Londoners who escaped slavery
Findings in Tower Hamlets archives shed light on resistance to enslavement likened to Underground Railroad in US
www.theguardian.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Fascinating new research and exhibition about Black enslaved & indentured people who escaped their ‘owners’ and ‘masters’ in C18 London, and the ‘safe houses’ that helped them avoid recapture:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nicely said, Dickon Mitchell. Britain, France, Spain and Portugal were most involved in transatlantic enslavement, but it helped enrich many other European nations and city-states (hello Genoa!)
#reparations
www.politico.eu/article/cari...
#reparations
www.politico.eu/article/cari...
Caribbean leader urges Ursula von der Leyen to push for slavery compensation
Grenada’s prime minister jabs at European Commission president over historical slave trade.
www.politico.eu
March 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Nicely said, Dickon Mitchell. Britain, France, Spain and Portugal were most involved in transatlantic enslavement, but it helped enrich many other European nations and city-states (hello Genoa!)
#reparations
www.politico.eu/article/cari...
#reparations
www.politico.eu/article/cari...
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During the Scramble for Africa, antislavery served as the justification for Europeans taking control of Africa.
February 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
During the Scramble for Africa, antislavery served as the justification for Europeans taking control of Africa.
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David Olusoga and I discuss the historical denialism on Empire with which Black Lives Matter was met.
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HOW TO PODCAST | David Olusoga & Alan Lester - The Truth About the British Empire
David Olusoga and Alan Lester reveal the dark realities of the British Empire, and reflect on the importance of historians amid the resurgence of nationalism and misinformation.
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November 15, 2024 at 6:17 PM
David Olusoga and I discuss the historical denialism on Empire with which Black Lives Matter was met.
howtoacademy.com/podcasts/dav...
howtoacademy.com/podcasts/dav...
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Hey it's the end of the US Black History Month!
Spoiler: Black History Month is every month 😤
Spoiler: Black History Month is every month 😤
March 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Hey it's the end of the US Black History Month!
Spoiler: Black History Month is every month 😤
Spoiler: Black History Month is every month 😤
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Long hours I've spent failing to explain to (white, British, elderly) people why enslavement of African people is a moral & financial debt we must address. Simpler to give them this by theologian Michael Banner. #reparations @nickebs.bsky.social
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Nick Spencer (@nickebs.bsky.social)
Senior Fellow at Theos. Author of Magisteria. Host of Reading our Times.
Christian humanist. Graecophile,Person of the Book. PEW Literary Agents.
nickebs.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Long hours I've spent failing to explain to (white, British, elderly) people why enslavement of African people is a moral & financial debt we must address. Simpler to give them this by theologian Michael Banner. #reparations @nickebs.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...