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Atlantic World Context

Project Author: Mary Battle, College of Charleston

Contributing Author and Editor: Christopher Sawula, University of Alabama

Editorial Contributors
Ted Blanton, College of Charleston
Christophe J. Boucher, College of Charleston
Andrew Cuadrado, College of Charleston
Simon Lewis, College of Charleston
David Gleeson, Northumbria University
Beth Gniewek, College of Charleston
Assan Sarr, Ohio University
John White, College of Charleston
Carl Wise, College of Charleston

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Establishing Slavery in the Lowcountry

Project Author: Mary Battle, College of Charleston

Editorial Contributors
Bradley Blankemeyer, College of Charleston
Kwesi Degraft-Hanson, Emory University
John Harris, Johns Hopkins University
Simon Lewis, College of Charleston
Amanda Mushal, Citadel: Military College of South Carolina
Neal Polhemus, University of South Carolina
Christopher Sawula, University of Alabama
Hayden Smith, College of Charleston

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Links

Avery Research Centerfor African American History and Culture

Free the Slaves: Modern Slavery

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition

Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor

International African American Museum

Jubilee Project

Lowcountry Digital Library

National Museums Liverpool: International Slavery Museum

Program for the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World