| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Routledge studies in cultural history ; 17 |
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Routledge studies in cultural history ; 17
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| Contents |
Transnational memory of slave merchants : making the perpetrators visible in the public space / Ana Lucia Araujo -- Reasons for silence : tracing the legacy of internal slavery and slave trade in contemporary Gambia / Alice Bellagamba -- With or without roots : conflicting memories of slavery and indentured labor in the Mauritian public space / Mathieu Claveyrolas -- Smoldering memories and burning questions : the politics of remembering Sally Bassett and slavery in Bermuda / Quito Swan -- Making slavery visible (again): the nineteenth-century roots of a revisionist recovery in New England / Margot Minardi -- Teaching and commemorating slavery and abolition in France : from organized forgetfulness to historical debates / Nelly Schmidt -- Commemorating a guilty past : the politics of memory in the French former slave trade cities / Renaud Hourcade -- The challenge of memorializing slavery in North Carolina : the unsung founders memorial and the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project / René Ater -- Museums and slavery in Britain : the bicentenary of 1807 / Geoffrey Cubitt -- Museums and sensitive histories : the International Slavery Museum / Richard Benjamin -- The art of memory : São Paulo's Afrobrasil Museum / Kimberly Cleveland -- Afro-Brazilian heritage and slavery in Rio de Janeiro community museums / Francine Saillant, Pedro Simonard -- Exhibiting slavery at the New-York Historical Society / Kathleen Hulser -- Museums and the story of slavery: the challenge of language / Regina Faden |
| Summary |
The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transnational phenomenon now encompassing Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and even Asia - allowing the populations of African descent, organized groups, governments, non-governmental organizations and societies in these different regions to individually and collectively update and reconstruct the slave past. This edited volume examines the recent transnational emergence of the public memory of slavery, shedding light on the work of memory produced by groups of individuals who are descendants of slaves. The chapters in this book explore how the memory of the enslaved and slavers is shaped and displayed in the public space not only in the former slave societies but also in the regions that provided captives to the former American colonies and European metropoles. Through the analysis of exhibitions, museums, monuments, accounts, and public performances, the volume makes sense of the political stakes involved in the phenomenon of memorialization of slavery and the slave trade in the public sphere |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
EBL |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Historiography -- Social aspects
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Slave trade -- Historiography -- Social aspects
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Slavery -- Musems
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Slave trade -- Museums
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Collective memory.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
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Collective memory
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Sklaverei
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Öffentlicher Raum
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Araujo, Ana Lucia, editor
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| LC no. |
2011046232 |
| ISBN |
1136313168 |
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9781136313165 |
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9780203119075 |
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020311907X |
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9781136313110 |
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1136313117 |
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9781136313158 |
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113631315X |
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9781138200753 |
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1138200751 |
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