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This chapter shows how considerations of geography and space can contribute to our understanding of slavery. Such analysis requires an interdisciplinary approach, but the chapter relies on a wide array of archival sources, from account books to church records, located in multiple archives across the United States and The Netherlands. The chapter also reiterates that although enslaved New Yorkers often lived in the same houses as the people who claimed to own them, they were certainly not inhabiting the same parts of the home or treated as members of the family. Through spatial analysis, the chapter reveals that even enslaved people inhabited or frequented the same places as their enslavers, their experiences within these spaces were inherently different. Ultimately, the chapter recalls how enslaved New Yorkers created alternative ways of knowing and navigating the spaces they inhabited and frequented. Regardless of their enslavers' efforts, their movements and activities could not be controlled. |
