Doing happy dance holding advance copy of #ContestedBodies #slavery #blackmotherhood #slavetrade #enslavedwomen #enslavedchildren #Jamaica
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Sasha Turner
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My new book, THE DRIVER'S STORY: LABOR AND POWER IN THE WORLD OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY, is officially in press with and will be published in May 2024.
I'm very grateful to everyone who helped along the way.
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Thanks to everyone who came to the ‘slavery and emotions’ conference . It was great to share ideas, thoughts and questions with such generous scholars. Huge thanks to for all her help, and for an incredibly thought provoking keynote
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Thank you and !!! What a phenomenal job you did bringing us all together for such important connections and conversations!!!! Truly inspired!!!
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Thanks to everyone who came to the ‘slavery and emotions’ conference @UniRdg_History. It was great to share ideas, thoughts and questions with such generous scholars. Huge thanks to @emilywestfahey for all her help, and @DrSashaTurner for an incredibly thought provoking keynote
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We're excited to announce Tiya Miles and Jennifer L. Morgan as the 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners!
glc.yale.edu/news/yale-anno
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Fantastic talk by @DrSashaTurner for this year's annual #WalterRodneyLecture @CaribbeanCentre
Lovely to be back in proximate physical company with people. Thanks for Lisa for organising, David & John as past/present directors for organising/chairing & fab questions from audience
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Reminder: The Walter Rodney Lecture at the Centre for Caribbean Studies, Univ of Warwick, will be given tomorrow by .
The title of her talk is: Coming to Grips with Caribbean History: Sources and Production
For more information:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ccs/e
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speaking next week at #AnnualWalterRodneyLecture
Sponsored by
In-person public event
Full details ⬇️⬇️
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The Walter Rodney Lecture at the Centre for Caribbean Studies, Univ of Warwick, will be given by next Tuesday, 15 November.
The title of her talk is: Coming to Grips with Caribbean History: Sources and Production
For more information:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ccs/e
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DMV-area Latin Americanist, Caribbeanist, and Latinx Studies folks: I'm organizing the Spring 2023 JHU LACLxS works-in-progress seminar & would love to have you present! Pieces from all disciplines & at all stages welcome. Hybrid meetings Thurs 2-4. Reach out for more info!
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I spoke with NPR Morning Edition today about how the Queen’s death has brought yet another moment of reckoning regarding the atrocities of the UK’s colonial past
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"The connecting tissue between 1662 and 2022 are fundamentally rooted in the history of slavery and reproduction," writes @ProfJLMorgan today at . aaihs.org/reproductive-r
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Many congratulations to the finalists!!!
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Yale Announces 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists.
glc.yale.edu/news/yale-anno
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Yale Announces 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists. It was a pleasure to work with and on 80 submissions to finally get the difficult decision of choosing the 3 finalists #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians
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Today at 3pm!!
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Save the date & spread the word! The final event for this year’s New Directions in African Diaspora Studies series is next Fri 5/6 @ 3pm EST. The esteemed @OlivetteOtele will be speaking. Register w QR code in flyer. @CUHistoryDept @IRAASColumbiaU @iserp_columbia @bcrwtweets
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Can't wait!!!!!! 👇🏿🥳🎉😍👇🏿
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SAVE THE DATE FOR THE 2022 ABWH SYMPOSIUM!
Shining Threads and Heavy Loads | Where We Enter and When We Exhale: Black Women Making History
December 8-11, 2022
University of Southern California (@USC), Los Angeles California.
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For Day 6 of Black History Month, I have chosen 3 sentences from a heartrending essay by in the book "Four Hundred Souls". One enslaved woman named Phyllis was sold six times between owners in Long Island, NYC, and New Jersey. Jack, a boy of twelve, was sold 🧵
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Update: I'm delighted that Prof. Sasha Turner will be delivering the workshop's keynote lecture on her current project exploring Slavery, Emotions and Gender. Deadline for paper proposals is 25th March!
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Excited to share the CfP for a workshop on 'Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World' to be held at University of Reading 17-18 Nov 2022. Please share far and wide!
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Excited to host this virtual book launch and discussion of Medicine & Healing in the Age of Slavery feat. , Sean Morey Smith, Rana Hogarth, & Deirdre Cooper Owens, and moderated by . Register to join us Dec 1 @ 4pm: psu.zoom.us/webinar/regist
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