Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University

Research Working Group on Built Environments of Atlantic Slavery

The Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations in conjunction with the Department of Anthropology of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University is instituting a joint Research Working Group on Built Environments of Atlantic Slavery. The group is concerned with the ways in which the built environment (e.g., slave trading entrepôts, productive and residential plantation buildings, ports, towns, transportation networks, and specific productive landscapes) contributed to the material, social, and cultural ordering, reproduction, and transformation of the space of Atlantic slavery. Through a trans-disciplinary approach, the group will address both functional and representational aspects of the built environment. As part of its program of collaborative research, the group will sponsor one or two annual workshops or symposia that will explore different aspects of these themes.

The project will be coordinated by Dale Tomich and Christopher DeCorse.

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