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

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

The Persistence of Memory tells the history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in the world, from the end of t

While the memorialization of slavery has generated an impressive number of publications, relatively few studies deal with this subject from a transnational, tra

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