In Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, Black women inhabit diasporic locations marked by the legacy of violence. This book moves between past and present, archives and fiction, theory and everyday, to focus on places negotiated by Black women during and after the transatlantic slave trade. Specifically, the author addresses the geographic implications of slave auction blocks, Harriet Jacob's attic, Black Canada and New France, as well as the conceptual spaces of feminism. Central to the argument are the ways in which Black women are not passive recipients of our surroundings and how a sense of place relates to the struggle against domination. Ultimately, McKittrick argues, these complex Black geographies are alterable and may provide the opportunity for social and cultural change.