Jeff Forret
@jforret.bsky.social
Dad, historian, prof, first-gen academic. Author of The Price They Paid, Williams' Gang, Slave against Slave, Race Relations at the Margins.
Pleased to announce that my most recent book, The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War, has won the 2024 John Lyman Book Award from the North American Society for Oceanic History.
September 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Pleased to announce that my most recent book, The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War, has won the 2024 John Lyman Book Award from the North American Society for Oceanic History.
When you publish a book with @thenewpress.bsky.social, they send you a gift box of cookies from Levain Bakery. This is how it's done.
November 20, 2024 at 10:34 PM
When you publish a book with @thenewpress.bsky.social, they send you a gift box of cookies from Levain Bakery. This is how it's done.
Release day for the new book, The Price They Paid. Huge thank you to The New Press and editor Marc Favreau for seeing this one to the finish line.
November 19, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Release day for the new book, The Price They Paid. Huge thank you to The New Press and editor Marc Favreau for seeing this one to the finish line.
Dust jacket for the next book.
July 28, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Dust jacket for the next book.