Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica

Through an examination of marine landscape art including prints, illustrated travel books and maps, this book re-connects the two significant British island colonies of Montreal and Jamaica, sites with profound economic and military value. Delivering one of the first slavery studies books to juxtapose temperate and tropical slavery and the first such comparative work in art history, Nelson explores how vision and cartographic knowledge translated into visual authority, which allowed colonizers to 'civilize' the so-called New World terrains, while belying the oppression of slavery and indigenous displacement.