He recommended that a country additionally required an expansive naval force to ensure its vendor transports and to shield its entitlement to exchange with different nations. Alfred T. Mahan an officer in the US Navy who instructed at the Naval War school.
Geography was a huge part in slavery because in Africa the people were hungry so they would give/sell the weakest people in Africa to the colonies in order to survive. The south had the largest amount of slavery and north the lowest this caused arguments which later led to the civil war, this is how geography has shaped slavery
I would only travel .5 miles and make my slaves do the rest