The 17th century witnessed the rise of racial hierarchies that increasingly categorized people as either white or Black, with this classification carrying significant legal and social implications. Enslaved Africans, within this context, were legally classified as property, depriving them of any rights or privileges within society. As Cheryl Harris argues in her influential article, “Whiteness as Property,” this distinction was fundamental to the economic and social order of the time, with whiteness becoming synonymous with the rights of property ownership and full participation in society. Black people were thus inextricably linked to the very land they were forced to labor upon. They were rarely named in documents of the period, instead represented by numbers akin to livestock or crops, commodified in the same way as the physical terrain. These visual, textual, and geographic records of plantations reveal that what may appear as objective documentation was also used as a tool to perpetuate the legal and social constructs that intertwined racial identity and ownership within the culture of the time.