Randy Browne
@randybrowne.bsky.social
Historian of Atlantic slavery & the British Caribbean | Professor | Author of THE DRIVER'S STORY: LABOR AND POWER IN THE WORLD OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY (2024) and SURVIVING SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN (2017) | randymbrowne.com
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The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Slavery experienced explosive growth in Britain’s Atlantic empire. In 1650, small numbers of captive Africans toiled on tiny pockets of land, principally in Barbados and Virginia. When emancipation ca...
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December 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Anyone with access to Labor able to send me a copy of this review? read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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If nothing else, this phenomenon is heightening the visibility of those who use citation simply as a signaling apparatus and not for the purposes of leading readers to the source of their claims or the thinking with which they are engaging.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If nothing else, this phenomenon is heightening the visibility of those who use citation simply as a signaling apparatus and not for the purposes of leading readers to the source of their claims or the thinking with which they are engaging.
I've read most of these and they are great.
In this holiday season, we keep reading! This is the #Slaveryarchive 10 Best Books 2025 list www.slaveryarchive.com/10-best-book...
December 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I've read most of these and they are great.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Nice review of THE DRIVER'S STORY in the latest issue of Slavery & Abolition, which calls the book "a fascinating and excellent study that will be of great benefit to scholars of slavery within the Caribbean and beyond."
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The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2025)
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December 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Nice review of THE DRIVER'S STORY in the latest issue of Slavery & Abolition, which calls the book "a fascinating and excellent study that will be of great benefit to scholars of slavery within the Caribbean and beyond."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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all i'm saying is that there were better options
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
all i'm saying is that there were better options
Yes. Also, one time I was rejected 14 months after applying. I guess it was good to have closure?
Ghosting, from both employers and candidates, is becoming rampant—and it's roiling the job market, Franklin Schneider writes:
When Did the Job Market Get So Rude?
Employer ghosting is on the rise. Now candidates are punching back.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Yes. Also, one time I was rejected 14 months after applying. I guess it was good to have closure?
Well, if we're doing front discourse, might as well re-read this absolute classic www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
I’m Comic Sans, Asshole
Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic exc...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Well, if we're doing front discourse, might as well re-read this absolute classic www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Book launch event @bookshopsantacruz.bsky.social on Feb. 2 for The Escapes of David George.
(Free, but registration required)
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Gregory O'Malley, The Escapes of David George
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December 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Book launch event @bookshopsantacruz.bsky.social on Feb. 2 for The Escapes of David George.
(Free, but registration required)
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This is such a nice surprise! Thanks to the editors of @choicereviews.bsky.social for selecting THE DRIVER'S STORY as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2025.
Congratulations to author @randybrowne.bsky.social, whose book THE DRIVER'S STORY has been selected by @choicereviews.bsky.social as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2025! bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs
December 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This is such a nice surprise! Thanks to the editors of @choicereviews.bsky.social for selecting THE DRIVER'S STORY as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2025.
I’ve respected Klay ever since I read his novel, and this does not dissapoint.
What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
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December 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I’ve respected Klay ever since I read his novel, and this does not dissapoint.
What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
"Sorry again about those salary cuts (and no, they're not as temporary as we said, oops!), but don't worry, during Faculty Appreciation Fridays you can get 5% of all spirit wear at our corporate partner bookstore!"
December 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"Sorry again about those salary cuts (and no, they're not as temporary as we said, oops!), but don't worry, during Faculty Appreciation Fridays you can get 5% of all spirit wear at our corporate partner bookstore!"
I'm very grateful to the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize jury and @journalslavery.bsky.social for this recognition!
Congrats to the winner, Magdalena Moorthy Kloss, and other finalists.
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Congrats to the winner, Magdalena Moorthy Kloss, and other finalists.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm very grateful to the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize jury and @journalslavery.bsky.social for this recognition!
Congrats to the winner, Magdalena Moorthy Kloss, and other finalists.
brill.com/view/journal...
Congrats to the winner, Magdalena Moorthy Kloss, and other finalists.
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Just under two weeks left to apply for this three-year post-doc to work on the AHRC-funded project, "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," based at the University of Edinburgh.
And we are hiring! We have been incredibly lucky to get this funding and are very grateful for the opportunity to work on this. Please circulate to people who would be interested in applying. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on jobs.ac.uk!
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December 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Just under two weeks left to apply for this three-year post-doc to work on the AHRC-funded project, "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," based at the University of Edinburgh.
Today only, THE DRIVER'S STORY and many other great @pennpress.bsky.social books are on sale for 50% off. www.pennpress.org/978151282586...
December 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Today only, THE DRIVER'S STORY and many other great @pennpress.bsky.social books are on sale for 50% off. www.pennpress.org/978151282586...
Henrique Espada Lima wrote an especially thoughtful review of THE DRIVER'S STORY for @journalslavery.bsky.social. It's so gratifying when a reviewer understands what an author wanted to accomplish w/ a book and communicates that clearly, along w/ some very fair critiques. brill.com/view/journal...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Henrique Espada Lima wrote an especially thoughtful review of THE DRIVER'S STORY for @journalslavery.bsky.social. It's so gratifying when a reviewer understands what an author wanted to accomplish w/ a book and communicates that clearly, along w/ some very fair critiques. brill.com/view/journal...
Anyone able to send me a copy of this review from the
@journalslavery.bsky.social?
@journalslavery.bsky.social?
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Anyone able to send me a copy of this review from the
@journalslavery.bsky.social?
@journalslavery.bsky.social?
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Don't miss Sascha Auerbach's review of "The Driver's Story' by @randybrowne.bsky.social
It's free #S2O #OpenAccess in the Spring 2025 issue of Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History at @projectmuse.bsky.social
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It's free #S2O #OpenAccess in the Spring 2025 issue of Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History at @projectmuse.bsky.social
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November 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Don't miss Sascha Auerbach's review of "The Driver's Story' by @randybrowne.bsky.social
It's free #S2O #OpenAccess in the Spring 2025 issue of Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History at @projectmuse.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
It's free #S2O #OpenAccess in the Spring 2025 issue of Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History at @projectmuse.bsky.social
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More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.”
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
Xavier professor receives $2M for research into Caribbean slavery
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November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.”
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
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Project to map enslaved people’s testimony | News | The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh historians will investigate slavery and the law in British Guiana, now Guyana, in a new three year-long project.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
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If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
Thanks to everyone who attended my keynote yesterday, "The Plantation Complex: Towards a Global History." I got some great questions and feedback.
Looking forward to this one-day workshop next Thursday: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/events/lo...
Longue Dureé Approaches to the Global Plantation Complex
Hybrid Workshop: What can we learn by rethinking plantations beyond the Atlantic world? From the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, plantations in the Caribbean, South America, and the U.S. South ...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Thanks to everyone who attended my keynote yesterday, "The Plantation Complex: Towards a Global History." I got some great questions and feedback.
This is pretty much my approach to AI in the classroom, too.
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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November 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This is pretty much my approach to AI in the classroom, too.