ISBN:
9781136313165
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9780415526920
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (303 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Cultural History Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.3/62072/2
Keywords:
Collective memory
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Slave trade ; Historiography ; Social aspects
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Slave trade ; Museums
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Slavery ; Historiography ; Social aspects
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Slavery ; Museums
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Slavery and Slave Trade in National Narratives -- 1 Transnational Memory of Slave Merchants: Making the Perpetrators Visible in the Public Space -- 2 Reasons for Silence: Tracing the Legacy of Internal Slavery and Slave Trade in Contemporary Gambia -- 3 With or Without Roots: Conflicting Memories of Slavery and Indentured Labor in the Mauritian Public Space -- 4 Smoldering Memories and Burning Questions: The Politics of Remembering Sally Bassett and Slavery in Bermuda -- 5 Making Slavery Visible (Again): The Nineteenth-Century Roots of a Revisionist Recovery in New England -- 6 Teaching and Commemorating Slavery and Abolition in France: From Organized Forgetfulness to Historical Debates -- 7 Commemorating a Guilty Past: The Politics of Memory in the French Former Slave Trade Cities -- 8 The Challenge of Memorializing Slavery in North Carolina: The Unsung Founders Memorial and the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project -- PART II Slavery and Slave Trade in the Museum -- 9 Museums and Slavery in Britain: The Bicentenary of 1807 -- 10 Museums and Sensitive Histories: The International Slavery Museum -- 11 The Art of Memory: São Paulo's AfroBrazil Museum -- 12 Afro-Brazilian Heritage and Slavery in Rio de Janeiro Community Museums -- 13 Exhibiting Slavery at the New-York Historical Society -- 14 Museums and the Story of Slavery: The Challenge of Language -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Slavery and Slave Trade in National Narratives; 1 Transnational Memory of Slave Merchants: Making the Perpetrators Visible in the Public Space; 2 Reasons for Silence: Tracing the Legacy of Internal Slavery and Slave Trade in Contemporary Gambia; 3 With or Without Roots: Conflicting Memories of Slavery and Indentured Labor in the Mauritian Public Space; 4 Smoldering Memories and Burning Questions: The Politics of Remembering Sally Bassett and Slavery in Bermuda
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Making Slavery Visible (Again): The Nineteenth-Century Roots of a Revisionist Recovery in New England6 Teaching and Commemorating Slavery and Abolition in France: From Organized Forgetfulness to Historical Debates; 7 Commemorating a Guilty Past: The Politics of Memory in the French Former Slave Trade Cities; 8 The Challenge of Memorializing Slavery in North Carolina: The Unsung Founders Memorial and the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project; PART II Slavery and Slave Trade in the Museum; 9 Museums and Slavery in Britain: The Bicentenary of 1807
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Museums and Sensitive Histories: The International Slavery Museum11 The Art of Memory: São Paulo's AfroBrazil Museum; 12 Afro-Brazilian Heritage and Slavery in Rio de Janeiro Community Museums; 13 Exhibiting Slavery at the New-York Historical Society; 14 Museums and the Story of Slavery: The Challenge of Language; Contributors; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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Transnational memory of slave merchants : making the perpetrators visible in the public space
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Reasons for silence : tracing the legacy of internal slavery and slave trade in contemporary Gambia
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With or without roots : conflicting memories of slavery and indentured labor in the Mauritian public space
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Smoldering memories and burning questions : the politics of remembering Sally Bassett and slavery in Bermuda
,
Making slavery visible (again): the nineteenth-century roots of a revisionist recovery in New England
,
Teaching and commemorating slavery and abolition in France : from organized forgetfulness to historical debates
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Commemorating a guilty past : the politics of memory in the French former slave trade cities
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The challenge of memorializing slavery in North Carolina : the unsung founders memorial and the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project
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Museums and slavery in Britain : the bicentenary of 1807
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Museums and sensitive histories : the International Slavery Museum
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The art of memory : São Paulo's Afrobrasil Museum
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Afro-Brazilian heritage and slavery in Rio de Janeiro community museums
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Exhibiting slavery at the New-York Historical Society
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Museums and the story of slavery: the challenge of language
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