UK folks: Here's a 30% discount code for THE DRIVER'S STORY.

Order at combinedacademic.co.uk and use discount code CSPENN30 at checkout for 30% off.

Likewise published this week is Randy Browne’s The Driver’s Story: Labor & Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery for Penn Press:
pennpress.org/9781512825862/…

Congrats, Mary Ellen Hicks! Looking forward to reading and then discussing this with you early next year.

Thanks to everyone who participated. The two randomly (i.e., random number generator) selected winners are @nikkidelynnv and Dr. Hilary Green! Send me your mailing addresses, please.

Grateful!!!

Last week, my employer held an in-person 'town hall' to discuss its ongoing 'transformation' project--no one was allowed to ask questions and the only people who spoke were senior administrators and McKinsey consultants.

Really excited to read this one!

(And to have a book on my bookshelf that has my last name on it. Maybe I can trick my kids into thinking I wrote it.)

I wanted this book to exist 24 years ago! But is never too late. Congratulations to Randy Browne. Enhorabuena.

Looking forward!

Today is pub day for THE DRIVER'S STORY: LABOR AND POWER IN THE WORLD OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY, so let's do a 📖giveaway! Retweet/repost (or quote tweet) by 8am EST Friday, May 10 for a chance to win one of two signed copies (U.S. mailing addresses only). pennpress.org/9781512825862/…

A great article that models a new approach to British Caribbean slave registers--well worth reading.

My husband, Prof. Steve Tamari, is out of the hospital. He will need surgery on his hand, and he is in pain from nine broken ribs. We are asking for time to rest and heal. We will not be taking media interviews at this time. Here is Steve's statement and ways you can support.

For those interested in slavery in #stlucia - available at the link below is a free downloadable dataset providing information on the more than 12,000 people enslaved on plantations in the island in 1815
jsdp.enslaved.org/fullDataArticl…

Jeff Sharlet Dartmouth 🌲 Those cops were brutal to me. I promise I did absolutely nothing wrong. I was standing with a line of women faculty in the their 60s to 80s trying to protect our students. I have now been banned from the campus where I have taught for 34 years.

The Los Angeles Times corrected their headline.

It's almost like law and order isn't really what admin and cops want.

Shocking footage shows several officers at Washington University St. Louis beating a professor, slamming him, and dragging his limp body.
SIUE history professor Steve Tamari is reportedly hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken hand.
One doctor told him he's lucky to be alive.

Was just asked by a publisher to review a book proposal for $45.

The best coverage right now I think is WKCR cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/#

According to Columbia by-laws, police are not supposed to be allowed on campus without the consent of the faculty. President Shafik does *not* have our approval for this raid; she has not even asked our approval. This promises to be a horrifying dereliction of faculty governance