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Politics of Memory

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Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space

Politics of Memory

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Politics of Memory book

Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space
Edited ByAna Lucia Araujo
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 13 April 2012
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203119075
Pages 308
eBook ISBN 9780203119075
Subjects Humanities, Museum and Heritage Studies
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Araujo, A.L. (Ed.). (2012). Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203119075

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

ByANA LUCIA ARAUJO

part |1 pages

PART I Slavery and Slave Trade in National Narratives

chapter 1|20 pages

Transnational Memory of Slave Merchants: Making the Perpetrators Visible in the Public Space

ByANA LUCIA ARAUJO

chapter 2|19 pages

Reasons for Silence: Tracing the Legacy of Internal Slavery and Slave Trade in Contemporary Gambia

ByALICE BELLAGAMBA

chapter 3|17 pages

With or Without Roots: Confl icting Memories of Slavery and Indentured Labor in the Mauritian Public Space

ByMATHIEU CLAVEYROLAS

chapter 4|21 pages

Smoldering Memories and Burning Questions: The Politics of Remembering Sally Bassett and Slavery in Bermuda

ByQUITO SWAN

chapter 5|14 pages

Making Slavery Visible (Again): The Nineteenth-Century Roots of a Revisionist Recovery in New England

ByMARGOT MINARDI

chapter 6|18 pages

Teaching and Commemorating Slavery and Abolition in France: From Organized Forgetfulness to Historical Debates

ByNELLY SCHMIDT

chapter 7|17 pages

Commemorating a Guilty Past: The Politics of Memory in the French Former Slave Trade Cities

ByRENAUD HOURCADE

chapter 8|16 pages

The Challenge of Memorializing Slavery in North Carolina: The Unsung Founders Memorial and the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project

ByRENÉE ATER

part |1 pages

PART II Slavery and Slave Trade in the Museum

chapter 9|19 pages

Museums and Slavery in Britain: The Bicentenary of 1807

ByGEOFFREY CUBITT

chapter 10|19 pages

Museums and Sensitive Histories: The International Slavery Museum

ByRICHARD BENJAMIN

chapter 11|16 pages

The Art of Memory: São Paulo’s AfroBrazil Museum

ByKIMBERLY CLEVELAND

chapter 12|19 pages

Afro-Brazilian Heritage and Slavery in Rio de Janeiro Community Museums

ByFRANCINE SAILLANT, PEDRO SIMONARD

chapter 13|20 pages

Exhibiting Slavery at the New-York Historical Society

ByKATHLEEN HULSER

chapter 14|15 pages

Museums and the Story of Slavery: The Challenge of Language

ByREGINA FADEN

chapter |4 pages

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