Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World

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.

• Introduction 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 2. Postbellum Slave Narratives as Historical Sources: Memories of Bondage and Realities of Freedom in Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave 3. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and Native Enslavement in California in History and Memory 4. Subjective Interpretations of the Memory of Slavery: Solving and Expressing Internal Conflicts Through Genealogical Research 5. Tè Pa Konn Pèdi: What Rural Memory Has to Say About Haitian Freedom 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 7. From White Guilt to White Responsibility: The Traces of Racial Oppression in the United States’ Collective Memory 8. Remembering in Black and White: Memorializing Slavery in 21st-Century Louisiana 9. Lessons from Abingdon Plantation at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. 10. Reconstructing a Dismantled Past: The Case of Afro-Diasporic History in Ceará, Brazil 11. Enslaved by History: Slavery’s Enduring Influence on the Memory of Pierre Toussaint 12. Memorial Equality and Compensatory Public History in Charleston, South Carolina Part III: Artistic Memories of Slavery 13. The Memory of Slavery in the Urban Landscape of Alexandria, Virginia 14. "The End is the Beginning and Lies Far Ahead": Time and Textuality in African American Visualizations of the Historical Past, 1990-2000 15. Breathing Statues, Stone Sermons, Pastoral Trails: Memorializing Truth 16. Re-imagining Slavery in David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress 17. "A Modern Slave Song:" Reggae Music and the Memory of Slavery

"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