The British Slave Trade and Public MemoryHow 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 more restoring the slave trade to public memory? What can be learned from this history? Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace explores these questions in her study of depictions and remembrances of British involvement in the slave trade. Skillfully incorporating a range of material, Wallace discusses and analyzes how museum exhibits, novels, television shows, movies, and a play created and produced in Britain from 1990 to 2000 grappled with the subject of slavery. |
Contents
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Commemorating the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Liverpool and Bristol | 21 |
Fictionalizing Slavery in the United Kingdom 19902000 | 63 |
Seeing Slavery and the Slave Trade | 121 |
Transnationalism and Performance in Biyi Bandeles Oroonoko | 175 |
Conclusion | 203 |
Notes | 209 |
Index | 239 |