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Racialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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! 👀

Eleven scholars stand in a windswept rooftop garden and smile at the camera. The scholars are: Justin Dunnavant, Thunnis van Oort, Amalia Levi, Taylar Carty, Fernanda Bretones Lanes, Dominique Rogers, Felicia Fricke, Gunvor Simonsen, Patrick Barker, Crystal Eddins, and Tiago Nunes Ribeiro.

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Racialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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...

Book twenty-five out of thirty-two with titles of the documents in Miscelanea. The book has a red fabric binding and the edge of a typewritten document can be seen protruding from the side. It rests on a tabletop made of dark varnished wood.

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Racialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

'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!

Ida stands outside the Cuban National Archives (Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba). She is wearing a blue t-shirt and a red hoodie. The gates of the archives are closed and the entrance to the building can be seen. The building is made of pale yellow stone and the entrance is flanked by columns.

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Racialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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...

Front page with decorative border. Wolter Robert van Hoëvell, De emancipatie der slaven in Neerlands-Indië: eene verhandeling (C. M. von Bolhuis Hoitsema, 1848). https://www.google.nl/books/edition/De_emancipatie_der_slaven_in_Neerlands_I/8jwsAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

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Racialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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...

Fugitive advertisement from newspaper 'The Quebec Gazette' dated 8th March 1787, available from https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4267091

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Racialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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 🌎

A white woman in black leaning against a plinth with a white urn. She holds the hand of a little white girl, also dressed in black, whose doll has fallen to the floor (Rudolph Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1809, Philadelphia Museum of Art, https://archive.org/details/repositoryofarts21809acke/page/n237/mode/2up).

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Racialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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.

Ida stands in front of her PowerPoint presentation, which is currently on a slide about Dutch bills in the East Indies. She is wearing a pink jacket and a white conference nametag, and she looks up at the slide while she talks.

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Racialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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.

"Run away from the Subscriber about 20 days ago, A Small, slender made, negro woman named Juliana Sophia, has a mark on the left ancle, and is far advanced in pregnancy. If she returns in eight days she will be forgiven; if not, she will be given over to Justice; no person must harbour her, or they must abide by the consequences of the Law. A reward of one Joe will be given to any person who will take and deliver her to REBECCA STALLARD. 3d Feb. 1804." DANSK VESTINDISK REGIERINGS AVIS, 1804-02-07, available from Mediestream.

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Racialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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

Professor Lise Jaillant presents her paper entitled "AI to Unlock Archives: Revolutionising Access to our Digital Past."

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