Geography of Atlantic World Slavery

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Examination of the spatial expression of slavery in Africa, Europe, and the European New World colonies from 1450 onward. Focal topics include 1) the role geography played in the unique experience of enslaved people throughout the Atlantic World, 2) the role of landscape in slave revolts and other forms of resistance, 3) the spatial legacies of slavery, and 4) the geographic nature of remembering and forgetting slavery throughout the Atlantic Ocean.