This course will examine African Diasporic place-making practices in the Americas from the 1600s through the height and end of the U.S. Civil War. It will traverse key moments in U.S., Canadian and Atlantic World History such as the revolutionary war, the rise and fall of transatlantic slavery, the Haitian revolution, and African Colonization; all from the unique social position of African descended people, searching for a place where they can be "free."