Slavery, memory and identity : national representations and global legacies / edited by Douglas Hamilton, Kate Hodgson and Joel Quirk.

"This is the first book to explore national representations of slavery in an international comparative perspective. The essays in this collection evaluate the complex relationship between slavery and national identity by assessing the role of museums and other forms of commemoration. Contributions s...

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Other Authors: Hamilton, Douglas J.
Hodgson, Kate
Quirk, Joel
Language:English
Published: London : Pickering & Chatto, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Slavery > Historiography > Case studies.
Social history > Cross-cultural studies.
Memorialization > Cross-cultural studies.
Genre:
Case studies.
Cross-cultural studies.
Physical Description:xii, 219 pages ; 16 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Slavery, memory and identity: national representations and global legacies / Douglas Hamilton, Kate Hodgson, Joel Quirk
  • 'A thoroughly national work': the politics of blame and European abolitionist identities / Kate Hodgson
  • From slave quarters to wigwams: Native American slaveholding and the debate over civilization / Natalie Joy
  • For civilization's sake: legal abolition of slavery in Nepal and Sierra Leone in a global perspective, 1920-30 / Sara Elmer, Christine Whyte
  • The heritage of slavery and nation building: a Comparison of South Africa and Mauritius / Anne Eichmann
  • Picturing slavery: the perils and promise of representations of slavery in the United States, the Bahamas and England / Jim Downs
  • 'History must be re-written!': revisionist ambitions among West African slave descendants / Eric Hahonou / Lotte Pelckmans
  • Contrapuntal memories of slavery and abolition in the French-speaking world / Charles Forsdick
  • Public memory of slavery in Brazil / Ana Lucia Araújo
  • Learning to remember and imagine slavery: the pedagogies of museum field trips in the representation of 'difficult' histories / Nikki Spalding
  • Slavery and racism as the 'wrongs' of (European) history: reflections from a study on Portuguese textbooks / Marta Araújo, Silvia Rodriguez Maeso.