ISBN:
9780415853927
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (269 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Parallel Title:
Print version Shadows of the Slave Past : Memory, Heritage, and Slavery
DDC:
306.3/6209
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book is a transnational and comparative study examining the processes that led to the memorialization of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in the second half of the twentieth century. Araujo explores numerous kinds of initiatives such as monuments, memorials, and museums as well as heritage sites. By connecting different projects developed in various countries and urban centers in Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the last two decades, the author retraces the various stages of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery including the enslavement in Africa, the process of confinement in
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Tales of Enslavement; 2 Sites of Deportation; 3 Places of Disembarkation; 4 Invisible Sites of Slave Labor; 5 Great Emancipators; 6 Iconic Rebels; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
