Introduction: Landscapes of Slavery in Africa

Abstract

ABSTRACT This thematic collection of articles on landscapes of slavery in Africa examines how landscapes form and reform over time and explores a diversity of heritage and memory investments of displaced peoples. These studies expand and complicate ongoing discussions in archaeology and history about the ways in which the operations and impacts of slavery were inscribed into landscapes. Resident and displaced populations today confront challenges in how to interpret, memorialize, and commemorate those cultural landscapes.