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This workshop aims to connect some of the rich historiography of slavery and emancipation in the Iberian Atlantic World to the emerging fields of spatial and mobilities history. Historians of Atlantic slavery have made exciting advances in the last couple of decades, drawing on Black geographies, mobilities studies, and environmental history to explore how both the power to move enslaved people, and bondspeople’s contestatory re-purposing of movement, constructed and challenged spaces of enslavement and freedom. Paths of Enslavement positions Latin America’s diverse built and natural landscapes, waterways, and archives at the heart of these discussions about slavery, space, and human movement. From different temporal and spatial vantage-points, the papers all emphasise enslaved people’s ability to harness mobility in resistive ways, or to fashion “place” on their own terms. A concluding roundtable explores how archival sources can help reveal the agency and creativity of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Iberian Atlantic. It will explore how, in translation, such sources might be useful for teaching person-centred, emancipatory histories of the Atlantic World in schools, as well as universities, in the UK and Latin America.

AHRC Global Diplomacy Network conference