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The persistence of memory - Jessica Moody

The persistence of memory

Remembering slavery in Liverpool, 'slaving capital of the world'

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Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2020
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-80034-828-8 (ISBN)
CHF 52,35 inkl. MwSt
An Open Access edition of this book is available on our website and on the OAPEN Library, funded by the LUP Open Access Author Fund.

The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th century into the 21st century; from history to memory. Mapping this public memory over more than two centuries reveals the ways in which dissonant pasts, rather than being ‘forgotten histories’, persist over time as a contested public debate. This public memory, intimately intertwined with constructions of ‘place’ and ‘identity’, has been shaped by legacies of transatlantic slavery itself, as well as other events, contexts and phenomena along its trajectory, revealing the ways in which current narratives and debate around difficult histories have histories of their own. By the 21st century, Liverpool, once the ‘slaving capital of the world’, had more permanent and long-lasting memory work relating to transatlantic slavery than any other British city. The long history of how Liverpool, home to Britain’s oldest continuous black presence, has publicly ‘remembered’ its own slaving past, how this has changed over time and why, is of central significance and relevance to current and ongoing efforts to face contested histories, particularly those surrounding race, slavery and empire.

Jessica Moody is a Lecturer in Public History at University of Bristol

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements


List of Abbreviations


Introduction: Remembering Slavery in the ‘Slaving Capital of the World’


Slavery, Memory, Public History


The Persistence of Dissonant Memory


Recovering Memory across a Longue Durée: methodology and book structure


1: From History to Memory: The Discursive Legacies of the Past


Introduction


Liverpool, ‘slaving capital of the world’


From History to Memory


Scouse Boasting, an Enterprising Sprit and The Competition


‘The Glory and the Shame’


Overcoming Abolition


The Memorial Debate of Liverpool and Slavery


Conclusion


2. Black Liverpool: Living with the Legacy of the Past


Introduction


Exceptional Legacies: the Liverpool black presence in the eighteenth and nineteenth century


Racism, Riot and Resistance: living with the legacy of the past


Guerrilla Public History: Education and Activism


Conclusion


3. Coinciding Anniversaries: Birthdays and the Abolition Act in 1907, 1957 and 2007


Introduction


1907: Performing Civic Patriotism and Celebrating the Slave Trade


1957: Racism, Decolonisation, and Abolition


2007: Birthdays and Bicentenaries


Conclusion


4. The ‘Cult’ of William Roscoe: Remembering Abolition


Introduction


Liverpool and Abolition


The Cult of William Roscoe


Conclusion


5. The Rise of the Museums


Introduction


The Transatlantic Slavery Gallery


The International Slavery Museum


Conclusion


6. Performing Memory: Local slavery memory in a globalizing world


Introduction


Whose Apology? Local Apology, Global Audience


Slavery Remembrance Day


Conclusion


7. Sites of Memory: Bodies and the Cityscape


Introduction


Buying and Selling: Myth, Place, and Layering


Graves and Ghosts


Bodies in Stone


Conclusion


Bibliography


Periodicals


Archival Material


Published Guidebooks


Histories of Liverpool


Other Primary Texts and Sources


Secondary Works


Websites and Online Resources

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Liverpool Studies in International Slavery ; 18
Zusatzinfo 10 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Liverpool
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-80034-828-2 / 1800348282
ISBN-13 978-1-80034-828-8 / 9781800348288
Zustand Neuware
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