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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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
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.”
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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
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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.
www.ed.ac.uk
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...
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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.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
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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 ...
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de
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.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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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.
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🗣️ “Drivers can’t just crack down. They risk rebellion. But they can’t go soft—they risk losing everything. It’s a war.” —Historian Randy Browne
Want more insight like this?
Listen to Ep. 418 of Ben Franklin’s World: benfranklinsworld.com/418
#EarlyAmerica #History #BFW
Want more insight like this?
Listen to Ep. 418 of Ben Franklin’s World: benfranklinsworld.com/418
#EarlyAmerica #History #BFW
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🗣️ “Drivers can’t just crack down. They risk rebellion. But they can’t go soft—they risk losing everything. It’s a war.” —Historian Randy Browne
Want more insight like this?
Listen to Ep. 418 of Ben Franklin’s World: benfranklinsworld.com/418
#EarlyAmerica #History #BFW
Want more insight like this?
Listen to Ep. 418 of Ben Franklin’s World: benfranklinsworld.com/418
#EarlyAmerica #History #BFW
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@csschmitt.bsky.social @randybrowne.bsky.social are among the splendid titles on offer here: no excuses accepted!
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November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Anyone with access to @smallaxeproject.bsky.social able to send me a copy of this piece by Catherine Hall? read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...
History as Redress and Repair
This essay is a response to the questions raised by the five forum panelists who have commented on Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024). It argues that the analysis of...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Anyone with access to @smallaxeproject.bsky.social able to send me a copy of this piece by Catherine Hall? read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...
Might Norway be interested in recruiting historians, too?
Norwegian govt says 10 out of 13 researchers coming to Norway under international talent scheme are leaving US.
Research minister talks about academic freedom being "under pressure" in US, and "unpredictable position" for many US researchers.
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Research minister talks about academic freedom being "under pressure" in US, and "unpredictable position" for many US researchers.
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Norway moves to snatch up US researchers - Research Professional News
Government hopes to attract disenfranchised foreign talent, especially from the US
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November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Might Norway be interested in recruiting historians, too?
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Skateboarding helps Gaza children with trauma amid ruins, adds rare joy
Children turn war-shattered ruins into makeshift skateparks as mental health crisis deepens.
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Children turn war-shattered ruins into makeshift skateparks as mental health crisis deepens.
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Skateboarding helps Gaza children with trauma amid ruins, adds rare joy
Children turn war-shattered ruins into makeshift skateparks as mental health crisis deepens.
www.aljazeera.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Skateboarding helps Gaza children with trauma amid ruins, adds rare joy
Children turn war-shattered ruins into makeshift skateparks as mental health crisis deepens.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Children turn war-shattered ruins into makeshift skateparks as mental health crisis deepens.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
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 ...
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Looking forward to this one-day workshop next Thursday: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/events/lo...
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honestly one of the most striking things about epstein's emails is the fact that the man, described in many places as "a genius," is essentially subliterate
November 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
honestly one of the most striking things about epstein's emails is the fact that the man, described in many places as "a genius," is essentially subliterate
University admin, too
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
University admin, too
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The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
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Why. Were. So. Many. Men. Regularly. Emailing. Jeff. Epstein. After. He. Was. A. Known. Pedophile?
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Why. Were. So. Many. Men. Regularly. Emailing. Jeff. Epstein. After. He. Was. A. Known. Pedophile?
Thank god! I had been worried about them this whole time.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Thank god! I had been worried about them this whole time.
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I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I was just detained by ICE for 10 days despite being a citizen carrying Real ID. But at least I know the Oberlin Student Senate won’t be doing land acknowledgements any more.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I was just detained by ICE for 10 days despite being a citizen carrying Real ID. But at least I know the Oberlin Student Senate won’t be doing land acknowledgements any more.
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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"'Without Fear' celebrates the activism of Black American women—an 'often-overshadowed group of activists and intellectuals.'" @randybrowne.bsky.social reviews Keisha N. Blain’s “Without Fear.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-the-transnational-activism-of-black-women/
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"'Without Fear' celebrates the activism of Black American women—an 'often-overshadowed group of activists and intellectuals.'" @randybrowne.bsky.social reviews Keisha N. Blain’s “Without Fear.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-the-transnational-activism-of-black-women/
My review of Keisha Blain‘s WITHOUT FEAR for the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
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Uniquely Positioned to Combat Injustice | Los Angeles Review of Books
Randy M. Browne considers Keisha N. Blain’s new book, which finds that Black women, historically, haven’t simply argued for racial justice at home; they have, in fact, fought for and won human rights ...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
My review of Keisha Blain‘s WITHOUT FEAR for the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
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CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️
Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference - Slavery North
Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference Dates: Thursday, July 9 to Sunday, July 12, 2026 Location: Univers...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️
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In case any of my NYC friends needed another reason to vote for Zohran 👇
now that's what I call a Mamdani endorsement. Don't threaten New Yorkers with a good time, Dave. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Dave Portnoy Threatens To Move Barstool Sports Out of New York City If Zohran Mamdani Becomes Mayor: ‘I Hate This Guy So Much’
Portnoy, 48, admitted that he has already asked his "finance guy" to begin looking at potential office spaces outside of the city.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
In case any of my NYC friends needed another reason to vote for Zohran 👇
If you can take even more dystopian news, this is a sobering read.
"A third of [Ireland's] electricity is expected to go to data centers in the next few years, up from 5 percent in 2015."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
"A third of [Ireland's] electricity is expected to go to data centers in the next few years, up from 5 percent in 2015."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
If you can take even more dystopian news, this is a sobering read.
"A third of [Ireland's] electricity is expected to go to data centers in the next few years, up from 5 percent in 2015."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
"A third of [Ireland's] electricity is expected to go to data centers in the next few years, up from 5 percent in 2015."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...