Eighty letters, never opened, sent to the crew of a French ship captured by the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War.

Renaud MORIEUX @renaudmorieux (Cambridge University) opened them. And, beyond the emotional dimension of doing so across centuries, he shares with us a multifaceted analysis of a coastal, maritime community in eighteenth-century Europe.

➡️ Lost Letters. Epistolary Communities, War, and Familial Ties in the Maritime Atlantic World of the Eighteenth Century

👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.15

#histodons #prizepapers #archives #archivodons @histodons #maritime #atlantichistory #AnnalesinEnglish

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Haiti became the first independent Caribbean state founded by former slaves

#HaitianRevolution #SlaveRevolt #AtlanticHistory #BlackHistory #FreedomFighters

#introduction. I am a #Bergamo born-and-raised, Germany-adopted postdoctoral #researcher, #cat-lover, #coffee-addict. I go archive-hunting to learn more about #Saint-Domingue, the #HaitianRevolution, #AtlanticHistory, the #18thCentury. And this is who I blame whenever I am not productive (way too often).

#histodons out there! After a Ph.D. at UniHalle (#intellectualhistory, #18thcentury #Enlightenment and...battling with the German language!), I am now a postdoc at the UniTrier: #HaitianRevolution, #AgeOfRevolutions #AtlanticHistory. Here's an open-access article to cut my intro short & let my cat lie down on the keyboard.

https://ageofrevolutions.com/2021/05/17/only-when-french-generals-will-give-their-daughters-in-marriage-to-the-negres-jean-francois-petecou-and-the-other-path-to-haitian-freedom/

#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.

#introduction

#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.