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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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