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New Slavery Databases Document More Than 150,000 Enslaved People in Cuba and Brazil, Opening Paths for Research A decades-long project by Distinguished Professor Laird W. Bergad of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies opens a major new archive on slavery and challenges long-held…

Two newly released databases documenting the lives of more than 150,000 enslaved people in Cuba and Brazil are now available to researchers, offering an unprecedented empirical foundation for studying slavery in the Americas www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-sla...
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"When Badin died, he left behind diaries, a vast book collection, private letters and an autobiography offering a window into his life in 18th- and 19th-century Stockholm." New Black Europe exhibition at the Swedish National Museum #earlymodern 🗃️

Dr Amy Acton/ David Pepper are an incredibly interesting ticket in the Ohio gubernatorial race.
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It's pub day for GOD BLESS THE PILL: he Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion by @samirakmehta.bsky.social 🎉 🙌

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Map of the U.S.A. showing states with library circulation per person, and Ohio has the highest.

@usafacts.org Ohio has the highest rate of library circulation per person. Our libraries are the best part about living here. We have traditionally led the nation in state funding, and it shows: we love them, support them, & use them. Cbus metro library never lost a levy. But DeWine cut the budget.

Choice Reviews text about THE DRIVER'S STORY next to a thumbnail image of the book's cover Text reads: This thoughtful book reexamines one of the most vilified and caricatured figures in Atlantic slavery: the overseer, or what Browne (Xavier Univ.) calls “the driver.” Drivers have come to symbolize the Atlantic slave regime’s brutal tactics, namely whipping and sexual assault. However, lay readers may not know that most drivers were enslaved Black men. As much as drivers enforced, wielded, and upheld the violence of the slave system, enslavers also subjected these men, and occasionally women, to “relentless surveillance and brutal discipline,” trapping them “at the center of the very labor system they were forced to uphold.” Browne explores the driver’s “fraught negotiations, contingent alliances, and difficult compromises.” Yet, the story of the driver is also necessarily that of enslavers, enslaved laborers, fiscals, judges, and other legal officials. Filtering what is essentially a micro-study of the plantation through the perspective of the driver, Browne shows that resistance often lay at the heart of the driving system—drivers could both punish and protect other enslaved people and were at the forefront of many well-known slave revolts and rebellions across the Caribbean precisely because of their influence and authority. To produce this empathetic “human history,” Browne expertly and painstakingly sifted through archival records found across the Atlantic World from Guyana to the UK.

Choice selected THE DRIVER'S STORY as one of five Outstanding Academic Titles in History, Geography & Area Studies. www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...

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I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

“When the violence of one’s oppressor feels inevitable, when people don’t know how to stop what’s happening, the risk of moral surrender is real. Will we allow our sense of empathy to become dull and fade?”

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Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

IDF bombing Lebanon today harder than before the ceasefire.

We have this in Columbus City Schools/Columbus Metropolitan Library (Ohio). But I’ve noticed that some parents and kids don’t know this, and don’t know that the library eliminated late fees, so dont take advantage of it. Definitely do it with NYCPS-NYPL but include basic education about libraries.

anyway vance and his ilk sees the presence of any black (and most brown) people in elite or coveted spaces as on its face evidence of “anti white discrimination”

Me too! And the ending seemed to me to draw a direct line to Georgia today.

I've been recommending his essay in Hammer and Hope on Vigilance Committees to everyone

Honestly, after that Trump post, I’m begging @nytimes.com, @apnews.com, @reuters.com, @washingtonpost.com, @npr.org and all of the other newspapers and media outlets to take this seriously. This is not normal and we need to stop pretending. This is a crisis.

UCL History Secures $575k Grant for Caribbean Enslaved People Database A $575,000 grant from a North American funder will support the development of a database of enslaved people at the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS).

Excellent news for the field www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Big No Kings crowd in Columbus!

Welcome to Ohio!

a threads post from pmccallion Judith Butler every day watching people use the word "performative" to mean "fake in a bad way" a photo of cillian murphy as robert oppenheimer looking distressed

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World TRAILER YouTube video by Pieshake Pictures

A film about Mary Oliver is forthcoming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJMd...

New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: Daylight savings exposes the deeper political dysfunctions that are making everyone batty.

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Opinion | The First Phone Call Was 150 Years Ago. Where Did We Go Wrong?

Smart phones really are worse, and the reaction to landlines when they were new shows it.

“Your great-great-grandparents were probably pretty happy with the phone. If your feelings about your smartphone are more mixed, don’t let anyone tell you you’re panicking.”

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so many people have headed calls to move off Google to places like proton. Actual useful advice is that you try to keep as much sensitive info offline as possible.

The two things Black Philly wanted me to know when I moved there in 2012 (as in, multiple people told me!):

1) Washington owned slaves and he brought them here. Go and see the chains on Independence Mall.

2) They bombed Black people while we had a Black mayor in office.

Me, a Detroiter: *Damn.*

The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.