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John Harris

@drjohnaeharris.bsky.social
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Historian, professor, author of The Last Slave Ships (Yale Press). ✍️ new book, Spying on The Slave Trade. Rep’d by Deirdre Mullane N. Irish immigrant to U.S. www.johnaeharris.com

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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 23m
In Atlanta on the Civil Rights trail
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Very impressed you take time to do this. Respect
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It would be wild if Lindsey Graham’s prophecy about Republicans picking Trump and getting crushed came true in his sister’s senate bid in South Carolina
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Congrats!
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Richard Bell @rickbell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Folks, I could not be more delighted by this wonderful recognition for the book. Congratulations to the other finalists and please check out our work!
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Andrés Pertierra @andrespertierra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In 2023 Cuban peso passed 200 to 1 USD In 2024 Cuban peso hovered between 300-400 to 1 USD Now, in 2026, the Cuban peso is now almost 800 pesos to the dollar.
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This made me laugh
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
List of people enslaved in the White House (or associated with the White House), organized by President: www.whitehousehistory.org/index-of-ens...
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Index of Enslaved Individuals
Below you will find a list of all known enslaved people who were associated with the White House. This list is not complete because some individuals were not recorded, and...
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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Join us 8–9 October for "The Prize Papers of the American War of Independence" at The National Archives, UK, and online. Explore newly catalogued documents from captured ships that reveal wartime lives and a global conflict. Register: www.eventbrite.de/e/the-prize-... #Rev250 #earlymodern #history
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The Prize Papers of the American War of Independence (Online)
An International Workshop on the UK Prize Papers and the American War of Independence: Wartime Lives, Capture, and Transnational Exchange
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Never heard that one!
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wild stuff
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is brilliant
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Student misses test because she has to take her horse to get a X-ray. Student misses makeup because she has to get her truck aligned. Teaching in the South.
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Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Many thanks to @ala-booklist.bsky.social!!
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Giving my students extra credit for registering to vote. Small class, they are all U.S. citizens, only one had voted before.
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Speaking of Hawks, Hawkeyes, etc, I would like read a history of how American sports teams got animal names. Any suggestions?
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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Call for proposals for a workshop, my people! Slavery and transimperial trade next March at William & Mary. Please spread it far and wide: I want to read your many great proposals!
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2027 Workshop Call for Proposals - Atlantic Exchanges Workshop
Atlantic Exchanges 2027 Slavery and the Commercial Machinery of Empires The Atlantic Exchanges Workshop invites proposals for its second edition, […]
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Keri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today is book release day!!! So thrilled that An Inconvenient Woman is finally out after years of research & writing. Thanks to everyone who has ordered or told their library to order - I truly appreciate you!♥️♥️♥️ @stmartinspress.bsky.social us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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An Inconvenient Woman
A revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregati...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Drew Gilpin Faust reviews Moving Toward Freedom: The Political Education of Enslaved Americans by Susan Eva O’Donovan And A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South by Melvin Patrick Ely
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Had bookmarked this and just now listened. Fantastic episode. The enslavement of Native Americans was based on *where* they were. They were on land that settler Americans wanted. It was qualitatively distinct from the enslavement of African Americans and those differences need to be understood.
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Which means a much needed course release for me as I get Spying on the Slave Trade finalized for publication
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In the mess that is federal funding I just learned my department got a grant to teach teachers about the history of technology, which everyone seems to agree is important right now
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Andrés Pertierra @andrespertierra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pretty astounding scoop from independent cuban media site El Toque; we now have granular details of financial workings of Cuban embassy in DC. In 6 years it made over $250 million USD sending most of it home while workers lived on a few hundred a month eltoque.com/las-cuentas-...
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Las cuentas secretas de la Embajada cubana en Washington: esta es la cantidad de dinero que recaudan en Estados Unidos
Documentos internos filtrados revelan que el Gobierno cubano convirtió sus servicios consulares en Estados Unidos en una fuente multimillonaria de ingresos, con metas anuales de recaudación que llegar...
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
* timeline cleanse * Please enjoy this adorable CBC video of a preschool class in Baltimore taking an imaginary trip to Canada 🥹🇨🇦
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We also looked at some FSA primary sources and this one really grabbed students' attention. It's a diagram that shows the arrangement of members of the Boston Anti-Man-Hunting League as they would surround a man-hunter, concealing him until he consented to release the person he was trying to kidnap
This diagram, explained by a note written by Henry I. Bowditch, shows the arrangement of members of the Boston Anti-Man-Hunting League as they would surround a man-hunter, concealing him until he consented to release the person he was attempting to kidnap. The League was a secret society founded in Boston in 1854 to resist the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. The diagram, in pencil and watercolor on brown paper, places the slave hunter in the center (SH), surrounded by the speaker of the committee (S), a member to take hold of the hunter's head (C), two members to take hold of the arms (A1 and A2) and two for the feet (F1 and F2), and twelve additional members to form an outer circle to ward off intruders while the committee conveyed the victim to safety. Bowditch's note continues, "One plagued in this way would not invite others to come & run the same risk of annoyance."
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So true
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My old boss has asked me to give his new book a social media bump, because he has wisely chosen never to set up his own account! So I’m happy to announce that ‘Britain’s Slave Traders: A Hidden History’ is available today in all good bookshops! www.penguin.co.uk/books/460026...
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Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Amazing job opportunity the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for a curator of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery: nypl.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...
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Curator, Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery - Schomburg Center
Job Opening: Curator, Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery - Schomburg Center at The New York Public Library in Schomburg Center.
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This looks like an incredible book
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Popping in to say the Abigail Adams, John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren "remember the ladies" letters remain brilliant for classroom discussion
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We have fully swapped lives
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Congrats my man!
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
That’s fantastic, Mark. Great resource
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And we never will. For one thing, it’s much more fun to teach this way. Admittedly I benefitted from a small class in this case - which we should also prioritize!
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
💯 this. Yesterday in my history class we pulled our tables into a circle and discussed a book about Pocahontas. Old school. Book in hand stuff. The conversation went all over, in a good way. It was dynamic, challenging, fun, unexpected. Students ate it up.
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ok this was pretty good
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Kudos to Nick Radburn, Will Pettigrew and others for putting this together. Very important resource on the British slave trade.
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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a very interesting new resource, The Register of British Slave-Traders. 'The Register focusses on the individuals who sought to profit from the enslavement of over 3 million African men, women, and children, whose identity was – for the most part – erased from the historical record.' 🗃️
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The Register of British Slave-Traders
The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I (from UK now is US) found I had to rid myself of hedging language: quite, somewhat, fairly etc.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Teaching is the very thing that’s been degraded and underfunded and is the very thing that we know across k-16 is the most important aspect of student learning and outcomes – well beyond the classroom. Yes, this is now my checklist for any essay/ pod abt "higher ed." 10/
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Students in discussion of uncurated materials is not teaching. Students hanging out together is not teaching. Good teaching is the thing that AI cannot do, while it can mimic a role in the first two. 9/
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have listened to and read lots and lots of What AI will Mean for College and the one big thing that gets skips all the time is TEACHING. Information provided is not teaching. 8/
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Please do get in touch with ideas for #maritime books - our @degruyterbrill.bsky.social series 'Early Modern Maritime Humanities 1400-1800: Oceans in History and Culture', ed. by me & John Mcaleer is keen to hear from you! Contact me or @erikagaffney.bsky.social here or via brill.com/page/forthco...
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My dear fellow millennials: I was having a perfectly fine evening introducing my kid to Beauty and the Beast only to learn it was made in 1991 … 35 years ago.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Trump is a bully and a braggart, a self-confessed sexual predator and a purveyor of racial slurs... Most people would not welcome such a man into their home, and the majority of Irish people will not welcome this visit.” Irish Times editorial on Trump in Ireland.
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The Irish Times view on Trump’s visit: a less than welcome guest
Most people would not welcome such a man into their home but political leaders must make a different calculation
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sounds like a great new book by Alan Taylor: "They knew slavery was morally wrong and dangerously unstable, but repressing that knowledge seemed easier than addressing it. Monstrous cruelty became a “tradition” worth loving.: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/b...
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Piercing the Delusions of a ‘Humane’ Plantation (Gift Article)
In “Tower Hill,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Alan Taylor pulls apart the twisted logic of a Virginia slave owner and his descendants.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/09/2026
"To establish that AI did not write your book, we will upload it to an AI detector. The detector will retain your words, learn from your distinct syntax and semicolon placement, and use them to improve the technology that will eventually produce more books resembling yours." buff.ly/FYVr6Zx
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A Note from Your Editor Regarding the Entirely Routine Authentication of Your Humanity
“To establish that AI did not write your book, we will upload it to an AI detector. The detector will retain your words, learn from your distinct syntax and ...
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