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1st ed.

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020

1 online resource (328 pages)

ISBN 9781789622577 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781789622324

Liverpool Studies in International Slavery Ser. ; v.18

Print version: Moody, Jessica The Persistence of Memory Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,c2020 ISBN 9781789622324

Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: Remembering Slavery in the ’slaving capital of the world’ -- 1. From History to Memory: The Discursive Legacies of the Past -- 2. Black Liverpool: Living with the Legacy of the Past -- 3. Coinciding Anniversaries: Birthdays and the Abolition Act in 1907, 1957, and 2007 -- 4. The Memorial Cult of William Roscoe: Remembering Abolition -- 5. The Rise of the Museums -- 6. Performing Memory: Local Slavery Memory in a Globalizing World -- 7. Sites of Memory: Bodies and the Cityscape -- Conclusion: Untelling Difficult Pasts -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Persistence of Memory tells the history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in the world, from the end of the 18th century into the 21st century, revealing the persistence of slavery memory in Liverpool as an ongoing, contested debate..

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