Lawrence Aje is an Associate Professor of United States history at the University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier.Nicolas Gachon is Associate Professor of American Studies at University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier.

"Artistic memorializations of slavery, including reggae music and statuary of Sojourner Truth, close out this informative and welcome entrant into studies of Atlantic slavery."- B. A. Mann, University of Toledo, Highly Recommended CHOICE

• Introduction Part I: (Re)-constructing the Memory and History of Slavery and of the Slave Trade 1. Senegambia and the Atlantic World: African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade Through the Archive 2. Postbellum Slave Narratives as Historical Sources: Memories of Bondage and Realities of Freedom in Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave 3. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and Native Enslavement in California in History and Memory 4. Subjective Interpretations of the Memory of Slavery: Solving and Expressing Internal Conflicts Through Genealogical Research 5. Tè Pa Konn Pèdi: What Rural Memory Has to Say About Haitian Freedom Part II: Re-membering Memory: Inscribing the Memory and History of Slavery in Public Space 6. The Ghosts of Whose Past?: Remembering and Remorse in the Body Politic 7. From White Guilt to White Responsibility: The Traces of Racial Oppression in the United States’ Collective Memory 8. Remembering in Black and White: Memorializing Slavery in 21st-Century Louisiana 9. Lessons from Abingdon Plantation at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. 10. Reconstructing a Dismantled Past: The Case of Afro-Diasporic History in Ceará, Brazil 11. Enslaved by History: Slavery’s Enduring Influence on the Memory of Pierre Toussaint 12. Memorial Equality and Compensatory Public History in Charleston, South Carolina Part III: Artistic Memories of Slavery 13. The Memory of Slavery in the Urban Landscape of Alexandria, Virginia 14. "The End is the Beginning and Lies Far Ahead": Time and Textuality in African American Visualizations of the Historical Past, 1990-2000 15. Breathing Statues, Stone Sermons, Pastoral Trails: Memorializing Truth 16. Re-imagining Slavery in David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress 17. "A Modern Slave Song:" Reggae Music and the Memory of Slavery

Lawrence Aje is an Associate Professor of United States history at the University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier.Nicolas Gachon is Associate Professor of American Studies at University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier.

"Artistic memorializations of slavery, including reggae music and statuary of Sojourner Truth, close out this informative and welcome entrant into studies of Atlantic slavery."- B. A. Mann, University of Toledo, Highly Recommended CHOICE

• Introduction Part I: (Re)-constructing the Memory and History of Slavery and of the Slave Trade 1. Senegambia and the Atlantic World: African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade Through the Archive 2. Postbellum Slave Narratives as Historical Sources: Memories of Bondage and Realities of Freedom in Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave 3. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and Native Enslavement in California in History and Memory 4. Subjective Interpretations of the Memory of Slavery: Solving and Expressing Internal Conflicts Through Genealogical Research 5. Tè Pa Konn Pèdi: What Rural Memory Has to Say About Haitian Freedom Part II: Re-membering Memory: Inscribing the Memory and History of Slavery in Public Space 6. The Ghosts of Whose Past?: Remembering and Remorse in the Body Politic 7. From White Guilt to White Responsibility: The Traces of Racial Oppression in the United States’ Collective Memory 8. Remembering in Black and White: Memorializing Slavery in 21st-Century Louisiana 9. Lessons from Abingdon Plantation at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. 10. Reconstructing a Dismantled Past: The Case of Afro-Diasporic History in Ceará, Brazil 11. Enslaved by History: Slavery’s Enduring Influence on the Memory of Pierre Toussaint 12. Memorial Equality and Compensatory Public History in Charleston, South Carolina Part III: Artistic Memories of Slavery 13. The Memory of Slavery in the Urban Landscape of Alexandria, Virginia 14. "The End is the Beginning and Lies Far Ahead": Time and Textuality in African American Visualizations of the Historical Past, 1990-2000 15. Breathing Statues, Stone Sermons, Pastoral Trails: Memorializing Truth 16. Re-imagining Slavery in David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress 17. "A Modern Slave Song:" Reggae Music and the Memory of Slavery

Lawrence Aje is an Associate Professor of United States history at the University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier.Nicolas Gachon is Associate Professor of American Studies at University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier.

"Artistic memorializations of slavery, including reggae music and statuary of Sojourner Truth, close out this informative and welcome entrant into studies of Atlantic slavery."- B. A. Mann, University of Toledo, Highly Recommended CHOICE

• Introduction Part I: (Re)-constructing the Memory and History of Slavery and of the Slave Trade 1. Senegambia and the Atlantic World: African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade Through the Archive 2. Postbellum Slave Narratives as Historical Sources: Memories of Bondage and Realities of Freedom in Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave 3. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and Native Enslavement in California in History and Memory 4. Subjective Interpretations of the Memory of Slavery: Solving and Expressing Internal Conflicts Through Genealogical Research 5. Tè Pa Konn Pèdi: What Rural Memory Has to Say About Haitian Freedom Part II: Re-membering Memory: Inscribing the Memory and History of Slavery in Public Space 6. The Ghosts of Whose Past?: Remembering and Remorse in the Body Politic 7. From White Guilt to White Responsibility: The Traces of Racial Oppression in the United States’ Collective Memory 8. Remembering in Black and White: Memorializing Slavery in 21st-Century Louisiana 9. Lessons from Abingdon Plantation at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. 10. Reconstructing a Dismantled Past: The Case of Afro-Diasporic History in Ceará, Brazil 11. Enslaved by History: Slavery’s Enduring Influence on the Memory of Pierre Toussaint 12. Memorial Equality and Compensatory Public History in Charleston, South Carolina Part III: Artistic Memories of Slavery 13. The Memory of Slavery in the Urban Landscape of Alexandria, Virginia 14. "The End is the Beginning and Lies Far Ahead": Time and Textuality in African American Visualizations of the Historical Past, 1990-2000 15. Breathing Statues, Stone Sermons, Pastoral Trails: Memorializing Truth 16. Re-imagining Slavery in David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress 17. "A Modern Slave Song:" Reggae Music and the Memory of Slavery