Superb exposition from William Pettigrew of how slave trading (let alone the whole plantation complex that depended on it) was “enmeshed in the processes that produced the nation we know today”. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/comm...

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"Letters Across the Sea: Gender, Weather, & Greek Shipping Networks in the Atlantic World, 1900–1930" by Dimitra Chrysoula Kardakari opens our series “Gender & Atlantic Ocean Environments,” co-edited w/ Written in the Waves journal for their special issue Soil & Sea niche-canada.org/2026/09/08/l...

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I wonder if there's any bigger project considering the transatlantic passage from Levant to the 'new' world.

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📢 The picturesque and the periphery - New paper by Shaun Young www.tandfonline.com/...

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'The discovery is detailed in a book, Searching for My Slave Roots, by...Malik Al Nasir, who has been researching his family history. Its findings have inspired a new research project, Overwriting-Underwriting, which aims to uncover the financial networks behind enslavement'. 2/3

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