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December 13, 2024 22 mins

Julia lands in Adler, Russia on the border of Georgia and where the Sochi airport is located. She is now in the southernmost reaches of the Caucasus Mountains where this mountain range meets the Black Sea.

This region of the world has seen empires battle for dominance, and yet the Caucasus mountains themselves remain largely unexplored. This stretch of the Black Sea coast from Adler, Russia to Sukhumi, Georgia was, at one time, the epicenter of the slave trade for the entire world. Find out more about this strange, wild land, why white people are called Caucasian, and finally Julia’s sought after contact in the mine of slavery.

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