My book The Power of Art: The World Black Artists Made in the Americas (under contract with Cambridge University Press) is now written and revised as much as possible. Will check the last few things this weekend and then handling it to my editor and then to reviewers on Monday.
If you are in #NYC on March 30, 2026 (Monday) join me at the The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU for the lecture The Power of Art: The World Black Artists Made in the Americas, part of the Silberberg Lecture Series. Also online. More information here ifa.nyu.edu/events/date/...
A great review of Toby Green's The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle Over Life in the Seventeenth-Century West Africa @uchicagopress.bsky.social in the @thetls.bsky.social. This is the most beautiful history book of 2025 and beyond, and you must read it. #slaveryarchive
RESIST: The Power of Enslaved Artists in the Americas. Heading to Florida International University to give a lecture and workshop tomorrow #slaveryarchive #africanart
In such a great company! ❤️
América: Luís, Alice, Jesús, Charmaine and Ana Lucia. Meet the Clark Art Institute fellows of the first semester of 2026.
Already one week as a fellow at the Clark Art Institute, the best paradise ever. Overly grateful for having the opportunity to work in peace, enjoying the most beautiful nature, supported by an amazing library, museum, dear fellows and scholars, and being closely watched by a deer hosting family.
MARK your calendars! The Covid-19 Pandemic as a World-Historical Event, @britishacademy.bsky.social international conference co-convened by Toby Green et al. at the BA in London, UK, on July 2-3, 2026, program coming soon, register to attend in person or online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-covid-...
🧵 3/3 To know + and how Na Agontimé was possibly sent to Brazil, check below "History, Memory, and Imagination: Na Agontimé, a Dahomean Queen in Brazil, In Beyond Tradition: African Women and their Cultural Spaces, ed. Toyin Falola and Sati U. Fwatshak analuciaaraujo.org/wp-content/u...
🧵2/3 The Candomblé house Casa das Minas in Maranhão, Brazil is dedicated to Zomadonu. We believe Zomadonu was brought to Brazil by Na Agontimé, the putative mother of King Gezo, sold into slavery when Adandozan came to power after the assassination of his father, Agonglo.
🧵1/3 Amazing! Zomadonou cult in Abomey, then Dahomey (now Bénin) on Feb 22, 1930. Zomadonou is the 1st of the 9 Tohossou (divinized “abnormal” children) of the royal family of Abomey. Filmed (11 mins here just 2 mins by Frédéric Gadmer, today at Musée Albert Kahn (France)
Africanist historian Paulo Farias (1935-2026) joined the ancestors. His legacy remain alive through his magisterial book Arabic Medieval Inscriptions from The Republic of Mali by Fontes Historiae Africanae (edited by Toby Green), available OPEN ACCESS ▶️ fonteshistoriaeafricanae.co.uk/books-availa...
Happy to see a review of our co-edited book Esclavages: Représentations visuelles et cultures matérielles (@cnrseditions.bsky.social) in @laviedesidees.bsky.social. The book is part of the 30-year anniversary of the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project laviedesidees.fr/L-esclavage-...
It's Black History Month in the United States, and today I would like to feature the work of Edmonia Lewis "an American girl of African and Indian blood" who created stunning sculptures like this marble Cleopatra. #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026
Last week at the Université Libre de Bruxelles: Dr. Liliane Umubyeyi commenting my lecture "The Past that Won't Go Away" based on my book Reparations for Slavery (Réparations, combats pour la mémoire et l’esclavage) at the conference "Colonial Legacies in Belgium" #slaveryarchive #booksky
Thank you historian @brookenewman.bsky.social for this important, needed, and beautiful book, which I am already citing in my current book manuscript. #slaveryarchive
It's Black History Month in the USA. Today we remember the late Nona Faustine, whose birthday is today. As an artist, she used her body as a monument to reckon with the slavery past of this country, and NYC, in particular. Happy birthday Nona. #BlackHistoryMonth #slaveryarchive
Yes, and now that the bully is unleashed in public, we can also respond.
'The Crown’s Silence, a book published this week, details how monarchs from Queen Elizabeth I to George IV used the trade in enslaved people to boost crown revenues and defend the British empire.'
'One autumn day in 1786, an unexpected parcel arrived at Carlton House, the London residence of George, Prince of Wales. The sender was Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, a free Black man living in London, one of roughly 4,000 people of African descent in the city at the time.'
And worse: behind the scenes she has been suing and bullying younger historians for years, always with the excuse that they are allegedly taking her meager and extremely boring work.
US white female historian using Black Caribbean historians (with whom she develops zero collaboration) to spread defamation via social media about the work of a woman historian who is younger than her and shining, just because she is jealous.
For my Beninese friends. Cotton spinners. Pour mes ami(e)s béninois(es). Fileuses de coton. Abomey, Dahomey, today's Republic of Benin. March 6, 1930. 6 mars 1930. Musée Départemental Albert Kahn #Africa #WestAfricanart #Africanart
“Several aspects of the social world revealed in [the Inquisition record] help us to rethink the possibilities of human relationships in society, and the ways in which people can work together for a common good, despite hailing from very different heritages and traditions”
Check Toby Green's beautiful essay on @aeon.co, edited by dear Sam Haselby, essay draws on Toby's new magnificent book The Heretic of Cacheu. For reading and listening, and to be shared widely in these difficult times we live in #slaveryarchive #Africanhistory #Africa aeon.co/essays/lesso...
Here's a sneak peek at a tiny slice of the research included in my new book, THE CROWN'S SILENCE (available for pre-order now and out tomorrow, 1/27)!!! @marinerbooks.bsky.social #booksky #slaveryarchive
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The cover of The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas--out TODAY with Mariner!
Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE
I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Bénin Aller-Retour: Regards sur le Dahomey de 1930. Beautiful exhibition at the Musée Départementale Albert-Kahn. Performing below, a magnificent Heviosso. #WestAfrica #RepublicofBenin #Vodun #film #exhibition
Next Thursday, January 28, I will be giving the keynote A Past that Won't Go Away" at the 3-day conference Héritages coloniaux en Belgique, in Brussels. My lecture will be in English. Full program here. QR code for registration below. actus.ulb.be/fr/actus/int... #slaveryarchive
Ce vendredi joignez-nous au Séminaire du CIRESC pour discuter mon livre Réparations. Combats pour la mémoire de l’esclavage (XVIIIe-XXIe siècle) @editionsduseuil.bsky.social 14h30 à l’EHESS, Campus Condorcet, salle 427 en personne et en visio sur Zoom cnrs.zoom.us/j/9311620051... #slaveryarchive
