Slave Sites on Display : Reflecting Slavery's Legacy through Contemporary "Flash" Moments /

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"At Senegal's House of Slaves, Barack Obama's presidential visit renewed debate about authenticity, belonging, and the myth of return--not only for the president, but also for the slave fort itself. At the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York, up to ten thousand slave d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woodard, Helena, 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Slavery.
African diaspora.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Africains > Pays etrangers.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire.
Slavery > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Iconic sons of Africa in the belly of the stone monster
  • Talking bones at the African burial ground in New York
  • Founding fathers, chimeras, and American Africanisms at presidential estates
  • The neo middle passenger and the traveling slave ship exhibition
  • The bench by the road slave memorial at Sullivan's Island
  • Epilogue: opening the Smithsonian National Museum of African American history and culture
  • Notes
  • Selected bibliography.

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