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Brazil through French eyes : a nineteenth-century artist in the tropics
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ISBN: 0826337465 0826337457 9780826337467 9780826337450 Year: 2015 Publisher: Albuquerque, [New Mexico] : University of New Mexico Press,

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Shadows of the slave past : memory, heritage, and slavery
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ISBN: 9780415853927 9780203747766 9781135011956 9781135011963 9781138200722 Year: 2014 Volume: 30 Publisher: New York London Routledge


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Living history
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ISBN: 1282413570 9786612413575 1443810681 9781443810685 9781443809986 1443809985 Year: 2009 Publisher: Newcastle Cambridge Scholars

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This book focusses on the several forms of reconstructing the slave past in the present. The recent emergence of the memory of slavery allows those who are or who claim to be descendents of slaves to legitimize their demand for recognition and for reparations for past wrongs. Some reparation claims encompass financial compensation, but very often they express the need for memorialization through public commemoration, museums, and monuments. In some contexts, presentification of the slave past...


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Politics of memory : Making slavery visible in the public space.
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ISBN: 9780415526920 9780203119075 9781136313165 9781136313110 9781136313158 9781138200753 0415526922 Year: 2012 Volume: 17 Publisher: New York Taylor and Francis


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The gift : how objects of prestige shaped the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism
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ISBN: 1108989756 1108839290 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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The Gift explores how objects of prestige contributed to cross-cultural exchanges between Africans and Europeans during the Atlantic slave trade. An eighteenth-century silver ceremonial sword, commissioned in the port of La Rochelle by French traders, was offered as a gift to an African commercial agent in the port of Cabinda (Kingdom of Ngoyo), in twenty-first century Angola. Slave traders carried this object from Cabinda to Abomey, the capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey in twenty-first century's Republic of Benin, from where French officers looted the item in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on a rich set of sources in French, English, and Portuguese, as well as artifacts housed in museums across Europe and the Americas, Ana Lucia Araujo illuminates how luxury objects impacted European-African relations, and how these economic, cultural, and social interactions paved the way for the European conquest and colonization of West Africa and West Central Africa.


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Slavery in the age of memory : engaging the past
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ISBN: 1350048496 9781350048485 9781350048492 1350048488 Year: 2019 Publisher: [New York]: Bloomsbury academic,

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"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 DC? 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 history of slavery and public history"--

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Slavery. --- Slave trade. --- Memory


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African heritage and memories of slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic world
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ISBN: 9781604978926 Year: 2015 Publisher: Amherst, N.Y. Cambria Press

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Reparations for slavery and the slave trade : a transnational and comparative history
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ISBN: 9781350010598 9781350010604 Year: 2017 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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Public memory of slavery : victims and perpetrators in the South Atlantic
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ISBN: 9781604977141 Year: 2010 Publisher: Amherst, NY : Cambria Press,

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Paths of the Atlantic slave trade : interactions, identities, and images
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ISBN: 9781604977479 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amherst, NY : Cambria Press,

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