Chloe Ireton

@chloeireton

Historian / writer / university lecturer. Author of 'Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic' (CUP, 2024) & lecturer @uclhistory

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Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· 23d

UK: @waterstones.bsky.social bookshop is running a summer promotion for pre-orders on my book Plotting for Freedom, soon to be published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social There is a 25% discount from today until 25 July with the code "SUMMER 26" #WPreorder www.waterstones.com/book/plottin...

This is a poster for a discount code:

UK: @waterstones.bsky.social bookshop is running a summer promotion for pre-orders on my book Plotting for Freedom, soon to be published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

There is a 25% discount from today until 25 July with the code "SUMMER 26" #WPreorder
https://www.waterstones.com/book/plotting-for-freedom/chloe-l-ireton/9781805266778

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Apr 2

No os imagináis mi ilusión al recibir en Londres el nuevo libro de Andrea Guerrero-Mosquera! 📚 ❞𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘀. 𝗟𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻̃𝗶́𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂́𝘀 𝘆 𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼́𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘀 𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘀 𝘆 𝗔́𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼-𝗼𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 (𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗹𝗼 𝗫𝗩𝗜𝗜)❞ También OPEN ACCESS🔥👉🏼 bit.ly/44PFZ6L

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Mar 4

Next Monday, March 9, 2026, join us for: "THE BLACK ATLANTIC AGAINST THE FRENCH EMPIRE". Jesus Ruiz (Vanderbilt) and Melanie Lamotte (Duke) at 17:00 at SOAS, University of London, Main Building (10 Thornhaugh St), Room C 277. hybrid.Sign up and find further details here: forms.gle/9JxWZsQwTNha...

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Jan 23

Upcoming Seminars: IHR Europe and the World, 1500-1800 Join us in-Person in London or online Registration: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Dec 15

NOVEDAD-OPEN ACCESS🔥🔥🔥 📚 ❞𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘀. 𝗟𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻̃𝗶́𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂́𝘀 𝘆 𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼́𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘀 𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘀 𝘆 𝗔́𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼-𝗼𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 (𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗹𝗼 𝗫𝗩𝗜𝗜)❞ 🗣️ de Andrea Guerrero-Mosquera Consulta el E-Book 🔗👉🏼 bit.ly/44PFZ6L Editorial: UAM Iztapalapa

Poster image of the book:
📚 ❞𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘀. 𝗟𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻̃𝗶́𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂́𝘀 𝘆 𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼́𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘀 𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘀 𝘆 𝗔́𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼-𝗼𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 (𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗹𝗼 𝗫𝗩𝗜𝗜)❞
🗣️ de Andrea Guerrero-Mosquera
.
Consulta el E-Book 🔗👉🏼 https://bit.ly/44PFZ6L
Editorial: UAM Iztapalapa
Capítulos:
Agradecimientos
Introducción
Recolectores de almas; catequesis y bautizo de africanos y africanas
Entre la esclavitud y la conversión' intérpretes y lenguas para la salvación de almas
Textos para la conversión y recolección de almas africanas
Consideraciones finales

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Sep 22

Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Poster image for "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic. Image of book covers and authors. More information on authors and books at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2025/oct/space-mobility-and-subjecthood-early-modern-history

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Jun 5

On the train to Liverpool for UKLAH 2025 & so looking forward to discussing Adolfo Polo y La Borda and Julia McClure's wonderful new books! Join us for discussion about each other's books & future methodological & theoretical directions in the field. links to books & programme. in thread

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Apr 23

Friends in London: I will be celebrating the publication of my new book 'Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic' cup.org/4gUfaSj on May 8 at IAS-UCL, in conversation with esteemed scholars and dear friends. Hope you can join! Registration: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic
08 May 2025, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm

A roundtable discussion with author Chloe L. Ireton and:
Matthew J. Smith (UCL), author of Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica After Emancipation (2014), and Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict and Political Change, 1934-1957 (2009).
Toby Green (Kings College London), author of The Heretic of Cacheu (2025), The Covid Consensus (2023), A Fistful of Shells (2019), and§ The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa (2012).
Julie Hardwick (University of Texas-Austin), author of Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789 (2020), The Practice of Patriarchy: Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern France (1998) and Family Business: Litigation and the Political Economy of Daily Life in Early Modern France (2009).
Miles Ogborn (Queen Mary University London), author of Spaces of Modernity: London’s Geographies 1680-1780 (1998), Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company (2007), Global Lives; Britain and the World, 1550-1800 (2008), and The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World (2019).
Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds), author of The Capital of Free Women; Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico (2022).

Copies of the book will be on sale during the event at a Cambridge University Press table
This event is supported by UCL Department of History, UCL Centre for Legacies of British Slavery, and UCL Centre for Transnational and Global History

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Mar 21

@uclhistory.bsky.social is hiring! Please share widely. See thread below for details on two permanent lectureships in the Department of History at UCL: 1. Lecturer in Middle Eastern History post 1600; 2. Lecturer in Digital History. /1

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Mar 14

MÉXICO: En abril estaré presentando mi libro Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (2025) cup.org/4gUfaSj 🚩CONFERENCIA: REFLEXIONES METODOLÓGICAS, HISTORIA INTELECTUAL DESDE ABAJO: ESCLAVITUD Y LIBERTAD EN EL PENSAMIENTO AFRO-HISPÁNICO 08 ABRIL 13h @divisioncshuami 3/4

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Mar 14

MÉXICO: En abril estaré presentando mi libro Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (2025) cup.org/4gUfaSj 🚩3 abril 11h-13h. @UNAM_Historicas En diálogo con Córdova Aguilar, Gutiérrez Peraza, y @citlallidominguez.bsky.social En Salón de Actos IIH y YOUTUBE 3/4

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Mar 14

MÉXICO: En abril estaré presentando mi libro Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (2025) cup.org/4gUfaSj 🚩1 de abril 25, 10h-12h @FES_ACATLAN UNAM En diálogo con Morales Fernández, @citlallidominguez.bsky.social, y Castañeda García en Auditorio UIM I 2/4

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Mar 14

MÉXICO: En abril estaré en CDMX charlando sobre mi libro Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (2025) –una historia intelectual sobre la libertad y la esclavitud. cup.org/4gUfaSj ⬇️⬇️Más info: FES Acatlán UNAM; IIH UNAM, y UAM-Iztapalapa. 1/4

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Mar 3

On Monday 10 March 12.00pm EST, I will be talking about 'Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic' (CUP, 2025) with Professor @kawulf.bsky.social at @jcblibrary.bsky.social Sign up: jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r... 20% discount on the book w/ code: SFBE2024 cup.org/4gUfaSj

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Feb 10

‼️Este mes estaré presentando mi libro Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge, 2025) en SEVILLA y MADRID cup.org/4gUfaSj 3/3 🚩25.2.25 Nuevas Perspectivas en los estudios Afro-Ibéricos, un diálogo. Biblioteca Histórica Marques del Valdecilla. Madrid 18h

Nuevas perspectivas en los
estudios afroibéricos: un diálogo
entre Nicholas R. Jones, Chloe
Ireton y Diana Berruezo-Sánchez
Descripción: Nicholas R. Jones, autor de Cervantine
Blackness (Penn State UP, 2024); Chloe Ireton, autora
de Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early
Spanish Atlantic (CUP, 2024); y Diana Berruezo-Sánchez,
autora de Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish
Literature, 1500–1750 (OUP, 2024), mantendrán un
diálogo sobre sus recientes publicaciones y futuras
direcciones de investigación en estudios afroibéricos
de la primera modernidad.
Evento gratuito y abierto al público.
Dr. Nick Jones (Yale)
Dra. Chloe Ireton (UCL)
Dra. Diana Berruezo-Sánchez (ICREA/UAB)
25 de febrero de 2025
18:00–20:00
Salón de Actos, Biblioteca Histórica
Marqués de Valdecilla (UCM),
C. del Noviciado, 3, 28015 Madrid.
Organizadora:
Dra. Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida (UCM)
This workshop is part of the research project
I+D+i PID2021-124893NA-I00: The Making of
Blackness: A Process of Cultural and Social
Negotiation from the Bottom-Up, funded by
MCIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033/:
This project has received funding from the
European Research Council (ERC) under the
European Union's HORIZON ERC programme
(Grant Agreement No. 101086104)

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Feb 10

‼️Este mes estaré presentando mi libro Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic, (Cambridge 2025) en SEVILLA y MADRID cup.org/4gUfaSj 2/3 🚩20.2.25 «Metodologías para la Historia Intelectual desde abajo» EEHA (CSIC), SEVILLA, 16,00h

Seminario Internacional
Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos/IH, Sala Enriqueta Vila Vilar, C/ Alfonso XII, 16, Sevilla
Actividad presencial, abierta al público hasta completar aforo
Además, será retransmitido por Conecta: https://conectaha.csic.es/b/jos-rhl-yzr-cy0
Proyecto de I+D+i MAPWORKS PID2022-141020NA-I00, nanciado/a por MCIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ y por “FEDER Una manera de hacer Europa”
Coordinación:
Salvador Bernabéu Albert (EEHA/IH, CSIC)
Jorge Díaz Ceballos (EEHA/IH, CSIC)
José M. García Redondo (EEHA/IH, CSIC)
Antonio J. Jiménez García-Baquero (EEHA/IH, CSIC)
20 de febrero de 2025
Inicio de sesión: 16:00 horas
ESCUELA DE ESTUDIOS
HISPANO-AMERICANOS /
INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA
Proyecto MAPWORKS - PID2022-141020NA-I00 financiado por:
«Metodologías para la Historia
Intelectual desde abajo:
esclavitud y libertad en el
pensamiento afro-hispánico en el
mundo atlántico temprano»
Chloe L. Ireton
University College London

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Feb 10

‼️Este mes estaré presentando mi libro Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge 2025) en SEVILLA y MADRID cup.org/4gUfaSj 1/3 🚩11.2.25 Presentación de libros: Novedades en Historia Social de la Historia Moderna. Universidad de Sevilla 16,45h

PRESENTACIÓN DE LIBROS
NOVEDADES EN HISTORIA SOCIAL DE LA ESPAÑA MODERNA
Universidad de Sevilla
Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Sala Carriazo
11 de febrero de 2025
Programa del acto
16:45 Presentación del acto
17:00 Dra. María Grove-Gordillo y Dr. Manuel F. Fernández Chaves: La economía mercantil española. Siglos XVI-XVII, Gijón, Trea, 2024.
17:25 Dra. Chloe Ireton: Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
17:50 Dr. Javier Fernández Martín: Esclavos y libertos ante los tribunales de justicia en el sur de la Corona de Castilla. Siglos XVI-XVII, Sevilla, Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2024.
18:15 Tiempo de diálogo
Organizan:
- Dr. Rafael M. Pérez García (Departamento de Historia Moderna, US)
- Dr. Manuel F. Fernández Chaves (Departamento de Historia Moderna, US)
Proyecto de I+D+i La esclavitud en la economía y la sociedad de la España del siglo XVI (PID2022-138444OB-I00), financiado por el MICIU/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033 y por FEDER, UE

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Jan 30

🚩In conversation, Afro-Iberian Studies w/ 🖋️ @bibliophilenick.bsky.social Cervantine Blackness tinyurl.com/bdd4az94 🖋️Ireton: Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought t.co/8EeXLct6fn 🖋️Berruezo-Sánchez: Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature tinyurl.com/mr348htb All welcome ⏰25/2 6pm 🧭Madrid🇪🇸

Text of English poster:
nversation:
Nicholas R. Jones, Chloe Ireton, and Diana Berruezo-Sánchez on Afro-Iberian Studies

Dr Nick Jones (Yale)
Dr Chloe Ireton (UCL)
Dr Diana Berruezo-Sánchez (ICREA/UAB)
25 February 2025 6-8 pm
Salón de Actos, Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla C. del Noviciado, 3, 28015 Madrid.
Convenor:
Dr Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida (UCM)
Description: Join Nicholas R. Jones, author of Cervantine Blackness (Penn State UP, 2024); Chloe Ireton, author of Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (CUP, 2024); and Diana Berruezo-Sánchez, author of Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500–1750 (OUP, 2024), for an engaging discussion about their latest works and future directions in research.
Free and open to all.
This workshop is part of the research project I+D+i PID2021-124893NA-I00: The Making of Blackness: A Process of Cultural and Social Negotiation from the Bottom-Up, funded by MCIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033/:
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's HORIZON ERC programme (Grant Agreement No. 101086104)

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Jan 15

Something is cooking: will soon be in conversation w/ magnificent & inspiring @bibliophilenick.bsky.social & Diana Berruezo-Sánchez, reading & discussing each other's new books & value of interdisciplinary convos. More details soon, but if you happen to be in Madrid on 25 Feb, save the date!

This is a photo of the covers of three books: 1/ Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Hispanic Atlantic; 2/ Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature 1500-1750; 3/ Cervantine Blackness

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Dec 11

Celebrating the arrival of author copies of my book today. So surreal (and thrilling) to see the book in print! You can order your copy in paperback, hardback or ebook here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

This image is a photo of my book Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the early Spanish Atlantic.

Chloe Ireton@chloeireton· Nov 28

✍️Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic 💭 An intellectual history exploring how free & enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized & contested ideas about slavery & freedom 🕰️Out on Dec 5th '24 🤫 already available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...