This is a seriously thoughtful book of family history, written by an honest amateur from 10 years' research. He (white guy in London) was shocked to find some of his ancestors part-owned plantations in Jamaica - he kept going, wrote it up, and found black relatives from ancestral rape.
[I'll also edit this post and reboost when I've written a review on Bookwyrm.]
#slavery #Jamaica #AtlanticHistory #18thCentury #books

Do you know where New France was?

No you don't, as Catherine Desbarats and Allan Greer magisterially demonstrate in this gem of an article: https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/haf/2011-v64-n3-4-haf0778/1017969ar/

Returning to teaching historiography of North America tomorrow, and very happy to start with this article, and the first chapters of Gilles Havard's _Histoire des Coureurs de bois_ 👌

#histodons #vastearlyamerica #NewFrance #NouvelleFrance #imperialhistory #atlantichistory

#introduction English version

#Histodon #Historian working on New Netherland / New York #DutchAtlantic #AtlanticHistory #C17 focusing on #gender and #women

Associate professor working and teaching in France, at Nantes Université.
2008 Fulbright NYU alum
2009 Doris Quinn Dissertation Fellowship @ Penn / MCEAS & New Netherland Institute

Currently trying to turn my PhD diss. into a book. Also working on colonial memory & history in the 19th century.
Part of the #AMERICA2026 Program.