Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Slavery, Memory and Identity: National Representations and Global Legacies
- 1 ‘A Thoroughly National Work’: The Politics of Blame and European Abolitionist Identities
- 2 From Slave Quarters to Wigwams: Native American Slaveholding and the Debate over Civilization
- 3 For Civilization's Sake: Legal Abolition of Slavery in Nepal and Sierra Leone in a Global Perspective, 1920–30
- 4 The Heritage of Slavery and Nation Building: A Comparison of South Africa and Mauritius
- 5 Picturing Slavery: The Perils and Promise of Representations of Slavery in the United States, the Bahamas and England
- 6 ‘History Must be Re-Written!’: Revisionist Ambitions among West African Slave Descendants
- 7 Contrapuntal Memories of Slavery and Abolition in the French-Speaking World
- 8 Public Memory of Slavery in Brazil
- 9 Learning to Remember and Imagine Slavery: The Pedagogies of Museum Field Trips in the Representation of ‘Difficult’ Histories
- 10 Slavery and Racism as the ‘Wrongs’ of (European) History: Reflections from a Study on Portuguese Textbooks
- Notes
- Index
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Acknowledgements
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Slavery, Memory and Identity: National Representations and Global Legacies
- 1 ‘A Thoroughly National Work’: The Politics of Blame and European Abolitionist Identities
- 2 From Slave Quarters to Wigwams: Native American Slaveholding and the Debate over Civilization
- 3 For Civilization's Sake: Legal Abolition of Slavery in Nepal and Sierra Leone in a Global Perspective, 1920–30
- 4 The Heritage of Slavery and Nation Building: A Comparison of South Africa and Mauritius
- 5 Picturing Slavery: The Perils and Promise of Representations of Slavery in the United States, the Bahamas and England
- 6 ‘History Must be Re-Written!’: Revisionist Ambitions among West African Slave Descendants
- 7 Contrapuntal Memories of Slavery and Abolition in the French-Speaking World
- 8 Public Memory of Slavery in Brazil
- 9 Learning to Remember and Imagine Slavery: The Pedagogies of Museum Field Trips in the Representation of ‘Difficult’ Histories
- 10 Slavery and Racism as the ‘Wrongs’ of (European) History: Reflections from a Study on Portuguese Textbooks
- Notes
- Index
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- Slavery, Memory and IdentityNational Representations and Global Legacies, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014