Museums And Atlantic Slavery

Author : Ana Lucia Araujo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000401677

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Museums and Atlantic Slavery by Ana Lucia Araujo Pdf

Museums and Atlantic Slavery explores how slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and enslaved people are represented through words, visual images, artifacts, and audiovisual materials in museums in Europe and the Americas. Divided into four chapters, the book addresses four recurrent themes: wealth and luxury; victimhood and victimization; resistance and rebellion; and resilience and achievement. Considering the roles of various social actors who have contributed to the introduction of slavery in the museum in the last thirty years, the analysis draws on selected exhibitions, and institutions entirely dedicated to slavery, as well as national, community, plantation, and house museums in the United States, England, France, and Brazil. Engaging with literature from a range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, sociology, art history, tourism and museum studies, Araujo provides an overview of a topic that has not yet been adequately discussed and analysed within the museum studies field. Museums and Atlantic Slavery encourages scholars, students, and museum professionals to critically engage with representations of slavery in museums. The book will help readers to recognize how depictions of human bondage in museums and exhibitions often fail to challenge racism and white supremacy inherited from the period of slavery.

Author : Laurajane Smith,Geoff Cubitt,Kalliopi Fouseki,Ross Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136667381

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Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums by Laurajane Smith,Geoff Cubitt,Kalliopi Fouseki,Ross Wilson Pdf

The year 2007 marked the bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. Representing Enslavement and Abolition on Museums- which uniquely draws together contributions from academic commentators, museum professionals, community activists and artists who had an involvement with the bicentenary - reflects on the complexity and difficulty of museums' experiences in presenting and interpreting the histories of slavery and abolition, and places these experiences in the broader context of debates over the bicentenary's significance and the lessons to be learnt from it. The history of Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery officially become part of the National Curriculum in the UK in 2009; with the bicentenary of 2007, this marks the start of increasing public engagement with what has largely been a ‘hidden’ history. The book aims to not only critically review and assess the impact of the bicentenary, but also to identify practical issues that public historians, consultants, museum practitioners, heritage professionals and policy makers can draw upon in developing responses, both to the increasing recognition of Britain’s history of African enslavement and controversial and traumatic histories more generally.

Author : Anthony Tibbles,Anthony H. Tibbles
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0853231982

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Transatlantic Slavery by Anthony Tibbles,Anthony H. Tibbles Pdf

Between 1500 and 1870, European traders transported millions of Africans to the Americas to work as slaves—yet despite the wealth of scholarship on this period, many people remain uninformed about the history of the slave trade and its implications for the modern black experience. Published to accompany a permanent gallery in the Merseyside Maritime Museum, Transatlantic Slavery documents this era through essays on women in slavery, the impact of slavery on West and Central Africa, and the African view of the slave trade. Richly illustrated, it reveals how the slave trade shaped the history of three continents—Africa, the Americas, and Europe—and how all of us continue to live with its consequences.

Author : Celeste-Marie Bernier,Judie Newman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317990215

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Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery by Celeste-Marie Bernier,Judie Newman Pdf

In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commemoration of slavery, as brought into sharp focus by the 2007 bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade. Writers consider nineteenth and twentieth century American and European images of African Americans, art installations, photography, literature, sculpture, exhibitions, performances, painting, film and material culture. This is essential reading for historians, cultural critics, art-historians, educationalists and museologists, in America as in Europe, and an important contribution to the understanding of the African diaspora, race, American and British history, heritage tourism, and transatlantic relations. Contributions include previously unpublished interview material with artists and practitioners, and a comprehensive review of the commemorative exhibitions of 2007. Illustrations include images from Louisiana, Maryland, and Virginia, many previously unpublished, in black and white, which challenge previous understandings of the aesthetics of slave representation. This book was published as a special issue of Slavery and Abolition.

Author : Ana Lucia Araujo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350048508

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Slavery in the Age of Memory by Ana Lucia Araujo Pdf

Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past explains how ordinary citizens, social groups, governments and institutions engage with the past of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. It illuminates how and why over the last five decades the debates about slavery have become so relevant in the societies where slavery existed and which participated in the Atlantic slave trade. The book draws on a variety of case studies to investigate its central questions. How have social actors and groups in Europe, Africa and the Americas engaged with the slave past of their societies? Are there are any relations between the demands to rename streets of Liverpool in England and the protests to take down Confederate monuments in the United States? How have black and white social actors and scholars influenced the ways slavery is represented in George Washington's Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in the United States?How do slave cemeteries in Brazil and the United States and the walls of names of Whitney Plantation speak to other initiatives honoring enslaved people in England and South Africa? What shared problems and goals have led to the creation of the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC? Why have artists used their works to confront the debates about slavery and its legacies? The important debates addressed in this book resonate in the present day. Arguing that memory of slavery is racialized and gendered, the book shows that more than just attempts to come to terms with the past, debates about slavery are associated with the persistent racial inequalities, racism, and white supremacy which still shape societies where slavery existed. Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past is thus a vital resource for students and scholars of the Atlantic world, the history of slavery and public history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968429

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Public Memory of Slavery by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephan Conermann, Claudia Rauhut, Ulrike Schmieder, Michael Zeuske
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111331621

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Cultural Heritage and Slavery by Stephan Conermann, Claudia Rauhut, Ulrike Schmieder, Michael Zeuske Pdf

Author : Ignatius Sancho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1783
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ZHBL:ZHBL-00052985

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Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African by Ignatius Sancho Pdf

Author : Ana Lucia Araujo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135011970

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Shadows of the Slave Past by Ana Lucia Araujo Pdf

This book is a transnational and comparative study examining the processes that led to the memorialization of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in the second half of the twentieth century. Araujo explores numerous kinds of initiatives such as monuments, memorials, and museums as well as heritage sites. By connecting different projects developed in various countries and urban centers in Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the last two decades, the author retraces the various stages of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery including the enslavement in Africa, the process of confinement in slave depots, the Middle Passage, the arrival in the Americas, the daily life of forced labor, until the fight for emancipation and the abolition of slavery. Relying on a multitude of examples from the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean, the book discusses how different groups and social actors have competed to occupy the public arena by associating the slave past with other human atrocities, especially the Holocaust. Araujo explores how the populations of African descent, white elites, and national governments, very often carrying particular political agendas, appropriated the slave past by fighting to make it visible or conceal it in the public space of former slave societies.

Author : Ana Lucia Araujo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350048478

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Slavery in the Age of Memory by Ana Lucia Araujo Pdf

Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past explains how ordinary citizens, social groups, governments and institutions engage with the past of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. It illuminates how and why over the last five decades the debates about slavery have become so relevant in the societies where slavery existed and which participated in the Atlantic slave trade. The book draws on a variety of case studies to investigate its central questions. How have social actors and groups in Europe, Africa and the Americas engaged with the slave past of their societies? Are there are any relations between the demands to rename streets of Liverpool in England and the protests to take down Confederate monuments in the United States? How have black and white social actors and scholars influenced the ways slavery is represented in George Washington's Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in the United States?How do slave cemeteries in Brazil and the United States and the walls of names of Whitney Plantation speak to other initiatives honoring enslaved people in England and South Africa? What shared problems and goals have led to the creation of the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC? Why have artists used their works to confront the debates about slavery and its legacies? The important debates addressed in this book resonate in the present day. Arguing that memory of slavery is racialized and gendered, the book shows that more than just attempts to come to terms with the past, debates about slavery are associated with the persistent racial inequalities, racism, and white supremacy which still shape societies where slavery existed. Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past is thus a vital resource for students and scholars of the Atlantic world, the history of slavery and public history.

Author : Ana Lucia Araujo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136313158

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Politics of Memory by Ana Lucia Araujo Pdf

The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transnational phenomenon now encompassing Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and even Asia – allowing the populations of African descent, organized groups, governments, non-governmental organizations and societies in these different regions to individually and collectively update and reconstruct the slave past. This edited volume examines the recent transnational emergence of the public memory of slavery, shedding light on the work of memory produced by groups of individuals who are descendants of slaves. The chapters in this book explore how the memory of the enslaved and slavers is shaped and displayed in the public space not only in the former slave societies but also in the regions that provided captives to the former American colonies and European metropoles. Through the analysis of exhibitions, museums, monuments, accounts, and public performances, the volume makes sense of the political stakes involved in the phenomenon of memorialization of slavery and the slave trade in the public sphere.

Author : Ana Lucia Araujo
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781621967439

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African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World by Ana Lucia Araujo Pdf

This book explores the history of African tangible and intangible heritages and its links with the public memory of slavery in Brazil and Angola. The two countries are deeply connected, given how most enslaved Africans, forcibly brought to Brazil during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, were from West Central Africa. Brazil imported the largest number of enslaved Africans during the Atlantic slave trade and was the last country in the western hemisphere to abolish slavery in 1888. Today, other than Nigeria, the largest population of African descent is in Brazil. Yet it was only in the last twenty years that Brazil's African heritage and its slave past have gained greater visibility. Prior to this, Brazil's African heritage and its slave past were completely neglected. This is the first book in English to focus on African heritage and public memory of slavery in Brazil and Angola. This interdisciplinary study examines visual images, dance, music, oral accounts, museum exhibitions, artifacts, monuments, festivals, and others forms of commemoration to illuminate the social and cultural dynamics that over the last twenty years have propelled--or prevented--the visibility of African heritage (and its Atlantic slave trade legacy) in the South Atlantic region. The book makes a very important contribution to the understanding of the place of African heritage and slavery in the official history and public memory of Brazil and Angola, topics that remain understudied. The study's focus on the South Atlantic world, a zone which is sparsely covered in the scholarly corpus on Atlantic history, will further research on other post-slave societies. African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World is an important book for African studies and Latin American studies. It is especially valuable for African Diaspora studies, African history, Atlantic history, history of Brazil, history of slavery, and Caribbean history.

Author : Kristin L. Gallas,James DeWolf Perry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780759123274

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Interpreting Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites by Kristin L. Gallas,James DeWolf Perry Pdf

This book moves the field forward in its collective conversation about the interpretation of slavery—acknowledging the criticism of the past and acting in the present to develop an inclusive interpretation of slavery.

Author : C. Kaplan,J. Oldfield
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230277106

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Imagining Transatlantic Slavery by C. Kaplan,J. Oldfield Pdf

This exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuring contributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on the long history of representations of transatlantic slaves and slavery, encompassing a broad chronological range, from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Author : Nigel Sadler
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0747807086

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The Slave Trade by Nigel Sadler Pdf

This book gives an overview of the trans-Atlantic slave trade from its sixteenth century beginnings until its final abolition in the nineteenth century. It covers the main countries involved and explains the inner workings of the trade and the developments that made it easier and more profitable as the centuries passed. On the human level, the book uses the stories of the enslaved, often in their own words, to try to convey the horrors endured by these victims. Finally, it details the fight against slavery both by politicians such as William Wilberforce and by the military might of the Royal Navy.