How does a contemporary society restore to its public memory a momentous event like its own participation in transatlantic slavery? What are the stakes of once

The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th

The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th

While the memorialization of slavery has generated an impressive number of publications, relatively few studies deal with this subject from a transnational, tra

Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard alehouses to