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  title info:
    title: Slavery in the age of memory
    sub title: engaging the past
  name:
    name part: Araujo, Ana Lucia
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past explains how ordinary citizens, social groups, governments and institutions engage with the past of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. It illuminates how and why over the last five decades the debates about slavery have become so relevant in the societies where slavery existed and which participated in the Atlantic slave trade. The book draws on a variety of case studies to investigate its central questions. How have social actors and groups in Europe, Africa and the Americas engaged with the slave past of their societies? Are there are any relations between the demands to rename streets of Liverpool in England and the protests to take down Confederate monuments in the United States? How have black and white social actors and scholars influenced the ways slavery is represented in George Washington's Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in the United States? How do slave cemeteries in Brazil and the United States and the walls of names of Whitney Plantation speak to other initiatives honoring enslaved people in England and South Africa? What shared problems and goals have led to the creation of the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C.? Why have artists used their works to confront the debates about slavery and its legacies? The important debates addressed in this book resonate in the present day. Arguing that memory of slavery is racialized and gendered, the book shows that more than just attempts to come to terms with the past, debates about slavery are associated with the persistent racial inequalities, racism and white supremacy which still shape societies where slavery existed. Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past is thus a vital resource for students and scholars of the Atlantic world, the …
  table of contents: Slavery and memory -- Weaving collective memory -- Shrines of cultural memory -- Battles of public memory -- Setting slavery in the museum -- Memory and public history -- Art of memory -- The persistence of the past.
  note: Ana Lucia Araujo.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Slavery
  subject:
    topic: Slave trade
  subject:
    topic: Memory
    topic: Social aspects
  classification: HT871 .A73 2021
  classification: 306.3/62
  identifier: 9781350048492
  identifier: 1350048496
  identifier: 9781350048485
  identifier: 1350048488
  identifier: 9781350048478
  identifier: 9781350048508
  identifier: 2020025160
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200608
    record change date: 20201207101420.0
    record identifier: in00004277967