The maps at the exhibit referenced[1] were fascinating. I know people often criticize topics that surface anything remotely concerning race, as there is a “rac

The maps at the exhibit referenced[1] were fascinating. I know people often criticize topics that surface anything remotely concerning race, as there is a “race to the bottom”, but I often find that I learn a lot just by the fact-checking that it spawns. To that end, one reference that I didn’t know coming in is “Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660”, for the degree to which Trans Atlantic slave trade re-shaped Central African society. Secondly, a book I read a year or so ago Ibrahim Kendi’s “Stamped From The Beginning” which discusses how exponential profits reaped by the trans-Atlantic and inter-America slave trade — unprecedented in the human practice of enslavement — spawned racist hierarchies that persist now. [1] https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/maps https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/maps