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Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World Traces and Memories deals with the foundation, mechanisms, and scope of slavery-related memorial processes, interrogating how descendants of enslaved populations reconstruct the history of their ancestors when transatlantic slavery is one of the variables of the memorial process. While memory studies mark a shift from concern with historical knowledge of events to that of memory, the book seeks to bridge the memorial representations of historical events with the production and knowledge of those events. The book offers a methodological and epistemological reflection on the challenges that are raised by archival limitations in relation to slavery and how they can be overcome. It covers topics such as the historical and memorial legacy/ies of slavery, the memorialization of slavery, the canonization and patrimonialization of the memory of slavery, the places and conditions of the production of knowledge on slavery and its circulation, the heritage of slavery and the (re)construction of (collective) identity. By offering fresh perspectives on how slavery-related sites of memory have been retrospectively (re)framed or (re)shaped, the book probes the constraints which determine the inscription of this contentious memory in the public sphere. The volume will serve as a valuable resource in the area of slavery, memory, and Atlantic studies. Lawrence Aje is Associate Professor of United States History at the University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier. Nicolas Gachon is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier. 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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-0-367-32127-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-31680-7 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents List of Figures viii List of Table ix Introduction 1 LAWRENCE AJE AND NICOLAS GACHON PART I (Re)-Constructing the Memory and History of Slavery and of the Slave Trade 13 1 Senegambia and the Atlantic World: African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade Through the Archive 15 HILARY JONES 2 Postbellum Slave Narratives as Historical Sources: Memories of Bondage and Realities of Freedom in Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave 30 CLAIRE BOURHIS-MARIOTTI 3 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and Native Enslavement in California in History and Memory 47 REBECCA ANNE GOETZ 4 Subjective Interpretations of the Memory of Slavery: Solving and Expressing Internal Conflicts Through Genealogical Research 62 ARY GORDIEN 5 Tè Pa Konn Pèdi: What Rural Memory Has to Say About Haitian Freedom 84 WINTER RAE SCHNEIDER vi Contents PART II Re-Membering Memory: Inscribing the Memory and History of Slavery in Public Space 99 6 The Ghosts of Whose Past? Remembering and Remorse in the Body Politic 101 ASHRAF H. A. RUSHDY 7 From White Guilt to White Responsibility: The Traces of Racial Oppression in United States’ Collective Memory 112 ANNE STEFANI 8 Remembering in Black and White: Memorializing Slavery in 21st-Century Louisiana 128 NATHALIE DESSENS 9 Lessons From Abingdon Plantation at Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC 144 THOMAS A. FOSTER 10 Reconstructing a Dismantled Past: The Case of Afro- Diasporic History in Ceará, Brazil 157 TSHOMBE MILES 11 Enslaved by History: Slavery’s Enduring Influence on the Memory of Pierre Toussaint 170 RONALD ANGELO JOHNSON 12 Memorial Equality and Compensatory Public History in Charleston, South Carolina 188 LAWRENCE AJE PART III Artistic Memories of Slavery 213 13 The Memory of Slavery in the Urban Landscape of Alexandria, Virginia 215 RENÉE ATER 14 “The End Is the Beginning and Lies Far Ahead”: Time and Textuality in African American Visualizations of the Historical Past, 1990–2000 233 ISOBEL ELSTOB Contents vii 15 Breathing Statues, Stone Sermons, Pastoral Trails: Memorializing Truth 249 CLAUDINE RAYNAUD 16 Re-Imagining Slavery in David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress 267 NATHALIE MARTINIÈRE 17 “A Modern Slave Song”: Reggae Music and the Memory of Slavery 281 DAVID BOUSQUET List of Contributors 295 Index 300 Figures 2.1 Engraving of Isaac Mason. 33 2.2 Map of Isaac Mason’s travels (as a slave) and route to freedom. 40 8.1 “The Children of Whitney,” Whitney Plantation Museum, Wallace, Louisiana. 134 8.2 Breaking Free, “Restore the Oaks” Project, New Orleans, Louisiana. 135 13.1 Erik Blome, Edmonson Sisters Memorial, 2010, Alexandria, Virginia. 219 13.2 Mario Chiodo, Path of Thorns and Roses, 2013, Alexandria, Virginia. 225 14.1 Glenn Ligon, Runaways, 1993, Suite of 10 lithographs. 238 14.2 Detail: Glenn Ligon, Runaways, 1993, Suite of 10 lithographs. 242 15.1 “Marie revenant de la fontaine.” Charles Cumberworth. 253 15.2 Statue of Sojourner Truth, Port Ewen, Esopus, New York. 255 16.1 Hogarth, William. A Harlot’s Progress: Plate 2. 269 Table 2.1 List of the places Isaac Mason lived in or visited as a slave, a fugitive, and a free man. 36
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