1st Edition

Slavery, Memory and Identity National Representations and Global Legacies

Edited By Douglas Hamilton, Kate Hodgson, Joel Quirk Copyright 2012
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is the first book to explore national representations of slavery in an international comparative perspective. Contributions span a wide geographical range, covering Europe, North America, West and South Africa, the Indian Ocean and Asia.

    Chapter 1 Introduction: Slavery, Memory and Identity: National Representations and Global Legacies, Douglas Hamilton, Kate Hodgson, Joel Quirk; Chapter 1a The Politics of Blame and European Abolitionist Identities, Kate Hodgson; Chapter 2 From Slave Quarters to Wigwams: Native American Slaveholding and the Debate Over Civilization, Natalie Joy; Chapter 3 For Civilization's Sake: Legal Abolition of Slavery in Nepal and Sierra Leone in a Global Perspective, 1920-30, Sara Elmer, Christine Whyte; Chapter 4 The Heritage of Slavery and Nation Building: A Comparison of South Africa and Mauritius, Anne Eichmann; Chapter 5 Picturing Slavery: The Perils and Promise of Representations of Slavery in the United States, the Bahamas and England, Jim Downs; Chapter 6 'History Must be Re-Written!': Revisionist Ambitions Among West African Slave Descendants, Eric Hahonou, Lotte Pelckmans; Chapter 7 Contrapuntal Memories of Slavery and Abolition in the French-Speaking World, Charles Forsdick; Chapter 8 Public Memory of Slavery in Brazil, Ana Lucia Araújo; Chapter 9 Learning to Remember and Imagine Slavery: The Pedagogies of Museum Field Trips in the Representation of 'Difficult' Histories, Nikki Spalding; Chapter 10 Slavery and Racism as the 'Wrongs' of (European) History: Reflections from a Study on Portuguese Textbooks, Marta Araújo, Silvia Rodríguez Maeso;

    Biography

    Douglas Hamilton, Kate Hodgson, Joel Quirk