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

This collection brings together local case studies of Britain’s history and memory of transatlantic slavery and abolition, including the role of individuals a

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

Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the