Sal Nicolazzo (UC Davis) and Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia) discuss points of convergence in their recent research. Sal shares their work on Richard Ligon’s History of Barbados. They consider what the intense focus on the sensory and the aesthetic in Ligon’s seventeenth-century text teaches us about the evolution of whiteness as property and as a legal status. Renisa presents material from her upcoming paper, “Atmospheric Pressure” on atmospheres and weather.