1st Edition
Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World
Introduction
Lawrence Aje and Nicolas Gachon
Part I: (Re)-constructing the Memory and History of Slavery and of the Slave Trade
1. Senegambia and the Atlantic World: African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade Through the Archive
Hilary Jones
2. Postbellum Slave Narratives as Historical Sources: Memories of Bondage and Realities of Freedom in Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave
Claire Bourhis-Mariotti
3. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and Native Enslavement in California in History and Memory
Rebecca Anne Goetz
4. Subjective Interpretations of the Memory of Slavery: Solving and Expressing Internal Conflicts Through Genealogical Research
Ary Gordien
5. Tè Pa Konn Pèdi: What Rural Memory Has to Say About Haitian Freedom
Winter Rae Schneider
Part II: Re-membering Memory: Inscribing the Memory and History of Slavery in Public Space
6. The Ghosts of Whose Past?: Remembering and Remorse in the Body Politic
Ashraf H.A. Rushdy
7. From White Guilt to White Responsibility: The Traces of Racial Oppression in the United States’ Collective Memory
Anne Stefani
8. Remembering in Black and White: Memorializing Slavery in 21st-Century Louisiana
Nathalie Dessens
9. Lessons from Abingdon Plantation at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.
Thomas A. Foster
10. Reconstructing a Dismantled Past: The Case of Afro-diasporic History in Ceará, Brazil
Tshombe Miles
11. Enslaved by History: Slavery’s Enduring Influence on the Memory of Pierre Toussaint
Ronald Angelo Johnson
12. Memorial Equality and Compensatory Public History in Charleston, South Carolina
Lawrence Aje
Part III: Artistic Memories of Slavery
13. The Memory of Slavery in the Urban Landscape of Alexandria, Virginia
Renée Ater
14. "The End is the Beginning and Lies Far Ahead": Time and Textuality in African American Visualizations of the Historical Past, 1990-2000
Isobel Elstob
15. Breathing Statues, Stone Sermons, Pastoral Trails: Memorializing Truth
Claudine Raynaud
16. Re-imagining Slavery in David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress
Nathalie Martinière
17. "A Modern Slave Song:" Reggae Music and the Memory of Slavery
David Bousquet
Biography
Lawrence Aje is an Associate Professor of United States history at the University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier.
Nicolas Gachon is Associate Professor of American Studies at University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier.
"Artistic memorializations of slavery, including reggae music and statuary of Sojourner Truth, close out this informative and welcome entrant into studies of Atlantic slavery."
- B. A. Mann, University of Toledo, Highly Recommended CHOICE
