John Harris
Historian of slavery and abolition. Author of The Last Slave Ships: NYC & The End of The Middle Passage (Yale, 2020). Working on a new book Spying on The Slave Trade 🕵️. Rep’d by Deirdre Mullane
N. Ireland - U.S.
johnaeharris.com
- Update: Got a house tour from the Horace Greeley descendants - several of whom are named … Horace Greeley. It was Horace mania inside! Very cool to see where my subject (Sanchez) lived & to briefly walk in his footsteps. Got a sense of his living situation / stylistic interests (Italianate) /1
- The Greeley-Sanchez link remains unclear for now but there’s an anti slavery connection that’s crying out for discovery. Will work on that. My takeaway: shoot your shot; knock on that door!
- Update: Got a house tour from the Horace Greeley descendants - several of whom are named … Horace Greeley. It was Horace mania inside! Very cool to see where my subject (Sanchez) lived & to briefly walk in his footsteps. Got a sense of his living situation / stylistic interests (Italianate) /1
- The Greeley-Sanchez link remains unclear for now but there’s an anti slavery connection that’s crying out for discovery. Will work on that. My takeaway: shoot your shot; knock on that door!
- If you heard someone say that they were from Black Lime, Ireland, where would you think that actually is? Cause it doesn't appear to be an actual place. She is supposed to be from Northern Ireland, but I think it is a corruption of her accent instead of a real place. #Genealogy
- @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social any idea on this question?
- Never heard of it
- Today I was in Brooklyn and cold-called the old home of Emilio Sanchez, an undercover agent who tried to stop the illegal transatlantic slave trade out of NYC in the 1850s / 1860s. I’m writing his bio. It turned out to be a wild ride /1
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View full threadThis is so great, I love it.
- I shoot my shot in situations like these.
- I was at a conference this morning in NYC where we heard about the impact of the elimination of the National Weather Service and of the privatization of weather info. Grim predictions: Paid access for weather forecasts and little info for rural communities bc fewer subscribers.
- Coolest. Thing. Ever.
- I’m having a good time
- This is great and I am waiting for you to find the Sanchez-Greeley connections and then write the whole thing up as a 2000 word piece for Commonplace.
- I have my marching orders!
- 5 minutes later a curious Dr Greeley calls me (yes!) & we talk for 30 minutes. He says, yes it is the Horace Greeley family & they’ve lived there since 1903 - pretty much since Sanchez’s days. Dr G’s son is currently making a Horace G documentary. They are giving me a house tour tomorrow evening! /5
- What exactly are the Sanchez - Greeley connections? Idk yet. In the meantime, I’m going to politely snoop all through this house.
