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Racialized Motherhood
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DFF-funded project documenting and analyzing early modern discourses about women's reproductive roles in the Atlantic World @ucph.bsky.social Website: https://saxoinstitute.ku.dk/research/history/racialised-motherhood/
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In 1847, there was a discussion in the Dutch East Indies about whether to free children born to enslaved mothers. Read two very different accounts of what happened in our new #blogpost by @idalvos.bsky.social: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/09/23/f...
Front page with decorative border. Wolter Robert van Hoëvell, De emancipatie der slaven in Neerlands-Indië: eene verhandeling (C. M. von Bolhuis Hoitsema, 1848). https://www.google.nl/books/edition/De_emancipatie_der_slaven_in_Neerlands_I/8jwsAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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The first #RacializedMotherhood #publication is out! A chapter in 'The Routledge Handbook of Information #History' looks at what fugitive ads in newspapers can tell us about both the violence of slavery and about the freedom seekers. Read more on our #blog:
racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/09/05/b...
Fugitive advertisement from newspaper 'The Quebec Gazette' dated 8th March 1787, available from https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4267091
September 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Project postdoc @feliciafricke.bsky.social will be presenting in #Sweden at @lnuccon.bsky.social Linnaeus University on 6 November! 🥳 Come along to hear about how long-lived widows contributed to colonial stability in the #Caribbean 🌎
A white woman in black leaning against a plinth with a white urn. She holds the hand of a little white girl, also dressed in black, whose doll has fallen to the floor (Rudolph Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1809, Philadelphia Museum of Art, https://archive.org/details/repositoryofarts21809acke/page/n237/mode/2up).
September 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Project PhD student @idalvos.bsky.social recently presented her research at the 9th Global Meeting of Slavery Past, Present and Future, which was held at the @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. She talked about the role of religion in Dutch and Spanish free womb discussions in the 1850s and 1870s.
Ida stands in front of her PowerPoint presentation, which is currently on a slide about Dutch bills in the East Indies. She is wearing a pink jacket and a white conference nametag, and she looks up at the slide while she talks.
July 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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In March 1804, Juliana Sophia ran from her enslaver in St. Croix, Danish West Indies, seeking freedom for her unborn child. Hers is one of many instances where women sought freedom for the next generation in the #Caribbean - either alone, or with their children, parents, partners, and friends.
"Run away from the Subscriber about 20 days ago, A Small, slender made, negro woman named Juliana Sophia, has a mark on the left ancle, and is far advanced in pregnancy. If she returns in eight days she will be forgiven; if not, she will be given over to Justice; no person must harbour her, or they must abide by the consequences of the Law. A reward of one Joe will be given to any person who will take and deliver her to REBECCA STALLARD. 3d Feb. 1804." DANSK VESTINDISK REGIERINGS AVIS, 1804-02-07, available from Mediestream.
June 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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This week, project PhD candidate @idalvos.bsky.social is at the #DigitalHumanities conference #DHBenelux2025 in Amsterdam! 2025.dhbenelux.org
Professor Lise Jaillant presents her paper entitled "AI to Unlock Archives: Revolutionising Access to our Digital Past."
June 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM