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Liberating Narratives is a newsletter about decolonizing the teaching of world history. It is written by @bramhubbell.bsky.social
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It’s time to replace “discovery” and “exploration” with navigation and colonization.
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Europeans Didn’t Discover the World
It’s time to stop calling it an “Age of Discovery” or an “Age of Exploration”
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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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It’s time to replace “discovery” and “exploration” with navigation and colonization.
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Europeans Didn’t Discover the World
It’s time to stop calling it an “Age of Discovery” or an “Age of Exploration”
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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Too often world historians use “Afro-Eurasia” with a hyphen. That hyphen has an ugly history. It’s time to start using Afrouerasia.
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The Problem with Hyphenating Afroeurasia
Hyphens suggest otherness; Afroeurasia has a long interconnected history
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October 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Too often world historians use “Afro-Eurasia” with a hyphen. That hyphen has an ugly history. It’s time to start using Afrouerasia.
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The Problem with Hyphenating Afroeurasia
Hyphens suggest otherness; Afroeurasia has a long interconnected history
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October 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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New post on global feminism and its support for internationalism between the world wars
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“All Women Throughout the World”: Global Feminism and Internationalism, 1900-1950
Discussion of teaching global feminism in the first half of the 1900s
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October 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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New post on global feminism and its support for internationalism between the world wars
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“All Women Throughout the World”: Global Feminism and Internationalism, 1900-1950
Discussion of teaching global feminism in the first half of the 1900s
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October 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Everyone should know about the Haitian Revolution - here are five resources for learning more or for classroom use
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Five Excellent Resources for Teaching or Learning about the Haitian Revolution
Learn more about the significance and legacies of the Haitian Revolution
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September 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Everyone should know about the Haitian Revolution - here are five resources for learning more or for classroom use
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Five Excellent Resources for Teaching or Learning about the Haitian Revolution
Learn more about the significance and legacies of the Haitian Revolution
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September 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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New post about teaching global feminism between 1750 & 1850
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“You Will Never Stop The Emancipation of Women”: Teaching Global Feminism in the Age of Revolutions, c.1750 - c.1850
Teaching the early development of global feminism from 1750 to 1850
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September 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Last week I wrote about the causes of the Haitian Revolution and got lots of great feedback. Thanks 🙏

I also had a couple of sources I left out and wanted to share.
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The Enlightenment Didn’t Cause the Haitian Revolution
Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had many reasons to revolt... the Enlightenment wasn't one of them
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September 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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September 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Teaching global feminism in world history is like teaching resistance by enslaved
Africans or colonized peoples. It should be our default approach. Women (and a few men) have consistently challenged patriarchy and pushed for greater equality.
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“Souls are neither Male nor Female”: Teaching Global Feminism in World History, c.1750 to Present
Discussion of teaching global feminism from 1750 to present
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September 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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I discuss how Marlene Daut’s new book on Henry Christophe and Julia Gaffield’s book on Jean-Jacques Dessalines are helpful to world history courses.
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“Astonish the World”: Teaching Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe
Discussion of teaching Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe
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September 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Too often students assume enslaved Africans revolted on Saint-Domingue because they were inspired by the Enlightenment or the other Atlantic Revolutions. They didn't.
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The Enlightenment Didn’t Cause the Haitian Revolution
Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had many reasons to revolt... the Enlightenment wasn't one of them
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September 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Love to see this idea translated for teachers! It’s something Haitians, Carolyn Fick, and I have emphasized for for years, even as textbooks add the Haitian Rev by making it a product of “the Enlightenment“ or the French Rev.
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Too often students assume enslaved Africans revolted on Saint-Domingue because they were inspired by the Enlightenment or the other Atlantic Revolutions. They didn't.
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The Enlightenment Didn’t Cause the Haitian Revolution
Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had many reasons to revolt... the Enlightenment wasn't one of them
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September 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Good point. You don't need to read philosophy in order to understand the person enslaving you is "bad" and should be stopped.
September 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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great post today: "European Enlightenment ideas did circulate in the Atlantic World, but so did African ideas. Europeans didn’t have a monopoly on the concept of liberty."
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New post!
Too often students assume enslaved Africans revolted on Saint-Domingue because they were inspired by the Enlightenment or the other Atlantic Revolutions. They didn't.
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www.liberatingnarratives.com/enlightenmen...
The Enlightenment Didn’t Cause the Haitian Revolution
Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had many reasons to revolt... the Enlightenment wasn't one of them
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September 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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New post!
Too often students assume enslaved Africans revolted on Saint-Domingue because they were inspired by the Enlightenment or the other Atlantic Revolutions. They didn't.
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www.liberatingnarratives.com/enlightenmen...
The Enlightenment Didn’t Cause the Haitian Revolution
Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had many reasons to revolt... the Enlightenment wasn't one of them
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September 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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New post! I discuss how we can teach the influence of African women on the slave trade using Crispina Peres. I draw heavily on the work of Toby Green.
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“A Single Black Woman”: African Women and the Portuguese Slave Trade in Sixteenth-Century West Africa
Teaching how African women influenced the slave trade in seventeenth-century West Africa
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September 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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New post! I discuss how we can teach the influence of African women on the slave trade using Crispina Peres. I draw heavily on the work of Toby Green.
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“A Single Black Woman”: African Women and the Portuguese Slave Trade in Sixteenth-Century West Africa
Teaching how African women influenced the slave trade in seventeenth-century West Africa
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September 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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New post about teaching the 1835 Malê Revolt in Brazil. It was the largest urban slave uprising in the Americas.
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“A Huge Contingent of Armed Africans”: Revisiting Enslaved African Resistance
Discussion of teaching the Malê Revolt
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August 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Time for a new theme for the month and a new free post. I wrote about why we should and how we can center Brazil when teaching the transatlantic slave system.
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I drew heavily on the work of @araujohistorian.bsky.social

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“The Horrors of the Cruel System of Slavery”: Revisiting the Transatlantic Slave System
Discussion of teaching Brazil and the transatlantic slave system
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August 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Time for a new theme for the month and a new free post. I wrote about why we should and how we can center Brazil when teaching the transatlantic slave system.
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I drew heavily on the work of @araujohistorian.bsky.social

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“The Horrors of the Cruel System of Slavery”: Revisiting the Transatlantic Slave System
Discussion of teaching Brazil and the transatlantic slave system
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August 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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What happens to our standard narrative of the 19th century global economy when we stop in 1850 & focus on Zanzibar? It’s surprising to see how Africans, Arabs, & South Asians shaped the global economy & turned Zanzibar into a hub of global trade
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“Everything is Found in Zanzibar”: East Africa, Zanzibar, and World History in the Nineteenth Century
Discussion of teaching nineteenth-century East Africa and Zanzibar
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August 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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I’m offering a free workshop tomorrow night (8/12). It’s on teaching the Mongols at 7PM ET/4PM PT. I hope to see you there.

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A Great Army is Mobilized: Teaching the Mongols
Free workshop on teaching the Haitian Revolution
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August 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM