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Ana Lucia Araujo
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Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org

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Ana Lucia Araujo is an American historian, art historian, author, and professor of history at Howard University. She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. Her scholarship focuses on the transnational history, public memory, visual culture, and heritage of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. .. more

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 6d
This salt-glazed technique ceramic jar was created by Thomas Commeraw, a formerly enslaved man who championed pottery in New York City. Born in 1772, he is one of the several artists featured in my current book project. This jar is on view at the Smithsonian NMAAHC in Washington DC #slaveryarchive

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 7d
Are you a historian of the Atlantic world with a manuscript of monograph or edited volume? Consider submitting to Race in the Atlantic World (UGA Press), edited by Araujo, Green & Newman, an award-winning series with a transnational/comparative focus. More here t.co/s3qp5NLQx7

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 8d
Nossa senhora das dores. Aleijadinho. ❤️

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 9d
OPEN ACCESS BOOK: African Masks and Emotions (Getty Publications, 2025) by Zoë S. Strother www.getty.edu/publications...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 11d
Will be there in spirit cheering for @sethrockman.bsky.social !

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 13d
je crois pas.

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 13d
Je serai à Paris le 23 janvier au séminaire du CIRESC « Réparations, restitutions et post-esclavage (1791-XXIème siècle) » pour présenter mon livre Réparations: Combats pour la mémoire de l'esclavage (@editionsduseuil.bsky.social), plus de détails ci-dessous esclavages.cnrs.fr/vie-scientif...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 14d
A new Bay of Pigs. This time successful, apparently. A Congressless country.

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 15d
Planning to attend the biannual meeting of the African Studies Association UK in Durham in September 2026? Check the stream Global Africa: Lives, Afterlives, and the Power of Things. Send us your panel or paper proposal no later than April 30. Instructions below asauk.net/global-afric...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 21d
As January starts in just 5 days, here is a Janus head collection (from today's Angola/DRC and Nigeria now in DC, Lisbon and NYC) to mark endings and new beginnings. Happy 2026: I wish you us all health, strength, peace and beauty in 2026. ♥

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 25d
Writing on Dahomey. And revisiting Pierre Verger's trajectory in the prologue. Full article here, a nice issue of Luso-Brazilian review I edited years ago. Note: my last name has no accents, and I dropped the accent of Lucia, 26 years ago. analuciaaraujo.org/araujo-pierr...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 27d
L'Africa e il mondo: Riannodare le storie dall'antichità al futuro co-edited by François Xavier-Fauvelle and Anne Lafont with my chapter "Le memorie nere nel mondo" is translated in Italian. Available here addeditore.it/prodotto/fra... and an excerpt is here addeditore.it/wp-content/u...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 28d
Sudan’s civil war has now displaced more than 12 million people. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/w...
Escape From the Abyss: Surviving the Atrocities in El Fasher
www.nytimes.com

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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 29d
Happy holidays and happy book new year! Here is the #Slaveryarchive Most Anticipated Books 2026 list. Enjoy, and see you all in 2026 www.slaveryarchive.com/most-anticip...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Dec 18
To know more about these stories check my book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery, 680 pages, hardback, 30 %OFF at University of Chicago Press website using code UCPNEW t.co/WWx6Y4raRc it's also 20 % OFF on Amazon #slaveryarchive

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Dec 18
"For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back." One year ago I published this article in @us.theconversation.com drawing on my book Humans in Shackles, check it out #slaveryarchive theconversation.com/for-enslaved...
For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back
Whether it was spent feasting or plotting escapes, the week between Christmas and the new year offered a rare opportunity for enslaved men, women and children to reclaim their humanity.
theconversation.com

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Dec 16
I reviewed The Heretic of Cacheu (Allen Lane & University of Chicago Press) by Toby Green for Slavery and Abolition. You can download it here, read it, and go get the book #slaveryarchive www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xvlx0...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Dec 14
To all of you at Brown and Providence, sending my love and solidarity.

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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · Dec 13
In this holiday season, we keep reading! This is the #Slaveryarchive 10 Best Books 2025 list www.slaveryarchive.com/10-best-book...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Dec 13
Check my new OPEN ACCESS chapter "Healing the Wounds of the Past: The Long History of Demands of Reparations for Slavery" in New Perspectives on Healing Collective TraumaTowards Social Justice and Communal Well-Being edited by dear Scherto Gil #slaveryarchive www.routledge.com/New-Perspect...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Dec 11
Being able to see and write about beautiful things designed and created nearly two centuries ago by people who spent their lives in the most tragic and harrowing conditions fills my soul in these dark days of winter, and it also brings me some hope. #slaveryarchive

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Dec 2
❤️ Thank you!
ihreurope1500.bsky.social Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · Dec 1
Social media manager is embarrassingly late, but delighted to have to sit on the floor because of HOW MANY PEOPLE are here to come and listen to the brilliant @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Picture of an extremely full seminar room, from the perspective of the floor :)

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · Dec 1
Social media manager is embarrassingly late, but delighted to have to sit on the floor because of HOW MANY PEOPLE are here to come and listen to the brilliant @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Picture of an extremely full seminar room, from the perspective of the floor :)

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Nov 27
Ce matin les Prix FETKANN dévoilés au Café de Flore à Paris: mon Réparations: Combats pour la mémoire de l'esclavage chez @editionsduseuil.bsky.social a reçu la mention spéciale du jury dans la catégorie recherche, j'aimerais tellement y être. Merci @fondationme.bsky.social pour les photos! ❤️

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Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social · Nov 25
Thrilling to find THE TROUBLE OF COLOR among the 51 faves for 2025 over at the Washington Independent Review of Books! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our...
Our 51 Favorite Books of 2025 | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Nov 25
My book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery @uchicagopress.bsky.social and The Heretic of Cacheu (AllenLaneBooks UK edition) by Toby Green at @blackwells.bsky.social at Oxford, UK. Picture taken by a dear friend historian, this past weekend. #slaveryarchive

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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · Nov 19
We're excited to welcome Ana Lucia Araujo, Toby Green, and Brooke Newman as the new editorial team for our Race in the Atlantic World series! Check out the blog for more on the editors and the series.
https://loom.ly/j2osHxM

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Nov 18
Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century 📌

1 Dec 2025
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & London

#History #Africa #18thCentury

Why not just use the link thumbnail?

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · Nov 18
I will be in London to present the paper "Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century" at the @ihreurope1500.bsky.social on Dec 1, 17h30 (London time) register here to join us in person or online www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #slaveryarchive