Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public Memory Wave System, official memory, and public history, Slavery within the Age of Memory: Partaking the Previous explains how peculiar citizens, social teams, governments and institutions engage with the past of slavery and the Atlantic slave commerce. It illuminates how and why over the last five a long time the debates about slavery have turn into so relevant within the societies where slavery existed and which participated in the Atlantic slave commerce. The e book draws on a wide range of case studies to investigate its central questions. How have social actors and teams in Europe, Africa and the Americas engaged with the slave previous 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 methods 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 partitions of names of Whitney Plantation speak to different initiatives honoring enslaved folks in England and South Africa? What shared issues and goals have led to the creation of the Worldwide Slavery Museum in Liverpool and the Nationwide Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC? Why have artists used their works to confront the debates about slavery and its legacies? The necessary debates addressed in this e-book resonate in the current day. Arguing that memory of slavery is racialized and gendered, the e book exhibits that more than simply makes an attempt to come back to terms with the previous, debates about slavery are associated with the persistent racial inequalities, racism, and white supremacy which nonetheless shape societies where slavery existed. Slavery within the Age of Memory: Participating the Previous is thus a significant useful resource for college students and scholars of the Atlantic world, the history of slavery and public historical past.

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