ABSTRACT
This book looked at the processes through which various social actors and groups articulate the slave past in the public space by exploring the transfers and exchanges that flow in various places and times during the process of remembrance. In its previous chapters, I explored how postslave societies remember, display, reenact, conceal, and forget the unpleasant stages of their involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and slavery. I also discussed how these societies are gradually incorporating these uncomfortable pasts into their national histories and identities by displaying these old scars in the public urban spaces of their main cities. Moreover, relying on the transnational and comparative analysis of monuments, memorials, museum exhibitions, and heritage sites, located in various regions of the Americas, Europe, and Africa, I examined the different ways sites of memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are promoted and commemorated. Also, I showed how these different initiatives have sometimes associated the experience of the victims of slavery with the suffering of the survivors of other atrocities, especially the Holocaust.
