Shadows of the slave past : memory, heritage, and slavery /

Shadows of the slave past : memory, heritage, and slavery /

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Author / Creator:	Araujo, Ana Lucia, author.
Imprint:	New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.
Description:	xvii, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge studies in cultural history ; 30 Routledge studies in cultural history ; 30.
Subject:	Slavery -- History. Slave trade -- History. Slavery -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History. Slave trade -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History. Collective memory. Collective memory. Slave trade. Slavery. Atlantic Ocean Region. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10076372

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ISBN:	9780415853927 (hardback) 0415853923 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book is a transnational and comparative study examining the processes that led to the memorialization of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in the second half of the twentieth century. Araujo explores numerous kinds of initiatives such as monuments, memorials, and museums as well as heritage sites. By connecting different projects developed in various countries and urban centers in Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the last two decades, the author retraces the various stages of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery including the enslavement in Africa, the process of confinement in slave depots, the Middle Passage, the arrival in the Americas, the daily life of forced labor, until the fight for emancipation and the abolition of slavery. Relying on a multitude of examples from the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean, the book discusses how different groups and social actors have competed to occupy the public arena by associating the slave past with other human atrocities, especially the Holocaust. Araujo explores how the populations of African descent, white elites, and national governments, very often carrying particular political agendas, appropriated the slave past by fighting to make it visible or conceal it in the public space of former slave societies"--

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