Racialized Motherhood

We are pleased to announce that the Racialized Motherhood project now has a #webpage ✨ Find out more about what we are working on - including a #blog and #podcast! 📰🎙️https://saxoinstitute.ku.dk/research/history/racialised-motherhood/

🚨 #CfP alert! Transatlantic Slavery and the Archive Conference, 21-22 June 2027, at The National Archives, Kew. Abstract submission deadline: 14 December 2026 📨 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

Project scholar @feliciafricke.bsky.social is co-organising the conference 'Privacy and Slavery, Past and Present' with colleagues from PRIVACY and PASS @ucph.bsky.social on 21-23 October - attendance is free and you can sign up here: teol.ku.dk/privacy/even...

@inthesamesea.bsky.social PI @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social will be giving her inaugural lecture at @ucph.bsky.social tomorrow at 2.15pm! Looking forward to a great event ✨ saxoinstitute.ku.dk/calendar/202...

IN THE SAME SEA's team and Dr. Joy Lewis have guest-edited the special issue “Small Islands, Proximity and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean” of the Journal of Caribbean History. See: www.uwipress.com/journals/the... Thanks to all contributors and the journal’s main editor Kathleen Monteith.

📣Project PI @silvaperez.bsky.social is hiring TWO PhD candidates for her new project "That's Women's Work!" on Pernambuco and Atlantic Africa. Apply by Sunday 20th September 📨 www.eur.nl/en/working-a... #history #Africa #Brazil #academia

Last week, @feliciafricke.bsky.social and @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social ran a great workshop bringing together scholars who work on fugitive ads in colonial #Caribbean newspapers. The goal is to establish a durable data infrastructure to support future research on fugitivity. Watch this space! 👀

The Call for Papers for our 58th Annual Conference is now available! Hope to see lots of y'all in Panamá! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...

Just published with Historical Database Suriname and the Caribbean: *Dataset: Enslaved Runaways from Curaçao to Coro, 1729-1775* Open Access: doi.org/10.34894/ULK...

The team of IN THE SAME SEA is happy to share a dataset about nearly 7,000 enslaved fugitives in Lesser Antilles. Read more at: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsdp/ar... Download at: dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?per... Watch at: experience.arcgis.com/experience/2... 🍀🌊🌞

This data article about fugitive adverisements in eastern #Caribbean newspapers is the result of years of work by the team at @inthesamesea.bsky.social Read it at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsdp/ar... and find the dataset at enslaved.org - an open-access research resource!

Racialised Motherhood #PhD candidate @idalvos.bsky.social has written another #blog post about her research trip to #Cuba. She discusses systematic racialization visible in the documents of the Cuban National Archive's miscellaneous collection. Read it here: racializedmotherhood.blog/2026/04/20/r...

Deadline extended until 1st May! 📨 #CfP #conference

Team member @feliciafricke.bsky.social will present on her recent article "Stability and survival: #Creole widowhood in St. Eustatius, 1780s-1820s" at a webinar for the European Society of Historical #Demography next week, Tuesday 21st April at 3pm CEST. More info here: www.eshd.eu/eshd-webinar...

One sound that is very characteristic of Havana, is the shouts and whistles of street vendors. I love this installation by Megan Fawn Schlow about these "Street Hawkers", and I was very interested to learn about the connection between this Cuban tradition and the history of slavery

In our most recent #blog post, you can read about how project PhD student @idalvos.bsky.social is experiencing the ongoing power crisis in #Cuba: racializedmotherhood.blog/2026/03/09/r...

There are still a couple of weeks left for #scholars and #artists to send in abstracts for this #conference on privacy and slavery in Copenhagen - do apply to join us, the deadline is 1st April! 📨

New publication alert! 🚨 You can now read this Open Access article about women's involvement in #Caribbean #colonialism through their work as print shop owners in #Guadeloupe #StKitts and #Curaçao 1720s-1860s 📰 @silvaperez.bsky.social @heatherfreund.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Co-editors @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social, Joy Lewis, Rasmus Christensen, and I have recently published a special issue of the Journal of #Caribbean #History! 🎉 Article topics include migration, trade networks, commons, marronnage, slavery law, and indentureship: www.uwipress.com/journals/the...

'Racialized Motherhood' project #PhD candidate @idalvos.bsky.social has arrived in #Cuba 🌎 where she is spending two months doing #archival #research about the implementation of Cuba's 1870 free womb law. Watch this space for updates on her important work!

In his final blog post for the project, our hardworking intern Danas Kuzminas writes about how Barbadian newspaper fugitive advertisements show enslaved women's efforts towards obtaining freedom for their children. Read it here: racializedmotherhood.blog/2026/02/10/w...

Racialized Motherhood intern Danas Kuzminas has uploaded his 2nd blog post 📰 After hours spent in the (digital) archive, he reflects on how enslaved women and girls were portrayed by their enslavers in #Barbadian fugitive advertisements. Read the post here: racializedmotherhood.blog/2026/01/19/k...

Racialized Motherhood intern Danas Kuzminas has been looking at #newspapers from colonial #Barbados. In this blog post, you can read what he has noticed about how these sources conveyed colonial viewpoints on the #abolition of slavery: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/12/18/a...

focus on the history of the Caribbean and/or the history of Atlantic slavery

#CfP - "Privacy and Slavery, Past and Present: Academic and Artistic Perspectives on an Urgent Issue". Deadline for abstracts: 1st April 2026 📨 teol.ku.dk/privacy/news...

We are excited to have Professor Sue Peabody @profpeabs.bsky.social join us for a talk about methods and microhistory. Join us on 20 November 2025, 1-3 PM at UCPH @ucph.bsky.social , South Campus, room 12.3.39.

Project team member @feliciafricke.bsky.social has just published a new blog post about widows in St. Eustatius around 1800 #Caribbean #history #colonialism You can read it here: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/10/31/c...

Excited to present my research about widows and #Caribbean colonialism on Thurs 6 Nov at @lnuccon.bsky.social - you can attend in person or online. Hope to see you there! 🤗 lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

On 18 Nov I will be giving a guest lecture about my work on fugitive motherhood in the #Caribbean at @lund-university.bsky.social in the #GlobalHistory Seminar Series. Sign up here! www.sol.lu.se/en/the-depar...

In 1847, there was a discussion in the Dutch East Indies about whether to free children born to enslaved mothers. Read two very different accounts of what happened in our new #blogpost by @idalvos.bsky.social: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/09/23/f...

We are here at the #ABRE2025 conference in Salamanca with the @rm-project.bsky.social. Yesterday we caught an amazing talk by Mateusz Czarnota on Conceição Evaristo’s idea of #escrevivência: writing born from lived experience of Afro-descendent women. Inspiring for our work on #RacializedMotherhood

New #OpenAccess #publication! 🚨 Creole widows were the most long-lived free people in 1780s-1820s St. Eustatius, Dutch #Caribbean - their stability was therefore instrumental in upholding colonialism. @inthesamesea.bsky.social @rm-project.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The first #RacializedMotherhood #publication is out! A chapter in 'The Routledge Handbook of Information #History' looks at what fugitive ads in newspapers can tell us about both the violence of slavery and about the freedom seekers. Read more on our #blog: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/09/05/b...

Project postdoc @feliciafricke.bsky.social will be presenting in #Sweden at @lnuccon.bsky.social Linnaeus University on 6 November! 🥳 Come along to hear about how long-lived widows contributed to colonial stability in the #Caribbean 🌎

Project PhD student @idalvos.bsky.social recently presented her research at the 9th Global Meeting of Slavery Past, Present and Future, which was held at the @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. She talked about the role of religion in Dutch and Spanish free womb discussions in the 1850s and 1870s.

Including 'Ethics in #Caribbean #Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future', which I co-edit with Eduardo Herrera Malatesta and Maaike de Waal 🎉 It will arrive in January 2026! ✨️

Finally! Abortion laws in the UK have been outdated and inhumane. Nobody should be prosecuted for having to make the decision to have an abortion. www.bbc.com/news/article...

In March 1804, Juliana Sophia ran from her enslaver in St. Croix, Danish West Indies, seeking freedom for her unborn child. Hers is one of many instances where women sought freedom for the next generation in the #Caribbean - either alone, or with their children, parents, partners, and friends.

This week, project PhD candidate @idalvos.bsky.social is at the #DigitalHumanities conference #DHBenelux2025 in Amsterdam! 2025.dhbenelux.org

I had fun talking about the pro-natalist movement in America with The Guardian's Today in Focus: www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

My guest essay for @nytimes.com about Adriana Smith. This situation is a tragedy from top to bottom, and there is so much complexity that can't be teased out in so few words. May she and the family left behind find peace soon. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...

Yesterday project postdoc @feliciafricke.bsky.social was at the opening event for the new Centre for #Digital and Computational #Humanities here in #Copenhagen! Exciting to see the start of this new hub where scholars can come together and learn from each other 😊 cdch.ku.dk

Welcome to the Racialized Motherhood page! 🦋 You can read about our project goals in this interview with PI @silvaperez.bsky.social - dff.dk/en/our-funde...