Slavery in the Age of Memory av Professor Ana Lucia (Howard University USA) Araujo

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Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, <i>Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past</i> 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