The British slave trade and public memory /

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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 more restoring the slave trade to public memory? What can be learned from this history? Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace explores these questions...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Slave trade > Great Britain > History > Public opinion.
Public opinion > Great Britain.
Slave trade in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Esclaves > Commerce > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > Opinion publique.
Opinion publique > Grande-Bretagne.
Traite des esclaves dans la littérature.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Public opinion
Slave trade in literature
Slave trade > Public opinion
Slavery in literature
Great Britain
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction : millennial reckonings
  • 1. Commemorating the transatlantic slave trade in Liverpool and Bristol
  • 2. Fictionalizing slavery in the United Kingdom, 1990-2000
  • 3. Seeing slavery and the slave trade.

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