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

'The Persistence of Memory is impressive in scope because Jessica Moody brings together many different ways of memorializing the slave trade and slavery... This is essential reading for understanding the issues surrounding consulting and working with Black communities — those of African Caribbean descent, others with long histories in Britain, and those more recently migrated from African countries.'Sheryllynne Haggerty, Journal of British Studies

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Remembering Slavery in the ‘Slaving Capital of the World’Slavery, Memory, Public HistoryThe Persistence of Dissonant MemoryRecovering Memory across a Longue Durée: methodology and book structure1: From History to Memory: The Discursive Legacies of the PastIntroductionLiverpool, ‘slaving capital of the world’From History to MemoryScouse Boasting, an Enterprising Sprit and The Competition‘The Glory and the Shame’Overcoming AbolitionThe Memorial Debate of Liverpool and SlaveryConclusion2. Black Liverpool: Living with the Legacy of the PastIntroductionExceptional Legacies: the Liverpool black presence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuryRacism, Riot and Resistance: living with the legacy of the pastGuerrilla Public History: Education and ActivismConclusion3. Coinciding Anniversaries: Birthdays and the Abolition Act in 1907, 1957 and 2007Introduction1907: Performing Civic Patriotism and Celebrating the Slave Trade1957: Racism, Decolonisation, and Abolition2007: Birthdays and BicentenariesConclusion4. The ‘Cult’ of William Roscoe: Remembering AbolitionIntroductionLiverpool and AbolitionThe Cult of William RoscoeConclusion5. The Rise of the MuseumsIntroductionThe Transatlantic Slavery GalleryThe International Slavery MuseumConclusion6. Performing Memory: Local slavery memory in a globalizing worldIntroductionWhose Apology? Local Apology, Global AudienceSlavery Remembrance DayConclusion7. Sites of Memory: Bodies and the CityscapeIntroductionBuying and Selling: Myth, Place, and LayeringGraves and GhostsBodies in StoneConclusionBibliographyPeriodicalsArchival MaterialPublished GuidebooksHistories of LiverpoolOther Primary Texts and SourcesSecondary WorksWebsites and Online Resources

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

'The Persistence of Memory is impressive in scope because Jessica Moody brings together many different ways of memorializing the slave trade and slavery... This is essential reading for understanding the issues surrounding consulting and working with Black communities — those of African Caribbean descent, others with long histories in Britain, and those more recently migrated from African countries.'Sheryllynne Haggerty, Journal of British Studies

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Remembering Slavery in the ‘Slaving Capital of the World’Slavery, Memory, Public HistoryThe Persistence of Dissonant MemoryRecovering Memory across a Longue Durée: methodology and book structure1: From History to Memory: The Discursive Legacies of the PastIntroductionLiverpool, ‘slaving capital of the world’From History to MemoryScouse Boasting, an Enterprising Sprit and The Competition‘The Glory and the Shame’Overcoming AbolitionThe Memorial Debate of Liverpool and SlaveryConclusion2. Black Liverpool: Living with the Legacy of the PastIntroductionExceptional Legacies: the Liverpool black presence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuryRacism, Riot and Resistance: living with the legacy of the pastGuerrilla Public History: Education and ActivismConclusion3. Coinciding Anniversaries: Birthdays and the Abolition Act in 1907, 1957 and 2007Introduction1907: Performing Civic Patriotism and Celebrating the Slave Trade1957: Racism, Decolonisation, and Abolition2007: Birthdays and BicentenariesConclusion4. The ‘Cult’ of William Roscoe: Remembering AbolitionIntroductionLiverpool and AbolitionThe Cult of William RoscoeConclusion5. The Rise of the MuseumsIntroductionThe Transatlantic Slavery GalleryThe International Slavery MuseumConclusion6. Performing Memory: Local slavery memory in a globalizing worldIntroductionWhose Apology? Local Apology, Global AudienceSlavery Remembrance DayConclusion7. Sites of Memory: Bodies and the CityscapeIntroductionBuying and Selling: Myth, Place, and LayeringGraves and GhostsBodies in StoneConclusionBibliographyPeriodicalsArchival MaterialPublished GuidebooksHistories of LiverpoolOther Primary Texts and SourcesSecondary WorksWebsites and Online Resources

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

'The Persistence of Memory is impressive in scope because Jessica Moody brings together many different ways of memorializing the slave trade and slavery... This is essential reading for understanding the issues surrounding consulting and working with Black communities — those of African Caribbean descent, others with long histories in Britain, and those more recently migrated from African countries.'Sheryllynne Haggerty, Journal of British Studies

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Remembering Slavery in the ‘Slaving Capital of the World’Slavery, Memory, Public HistoryThe Persistence of Dissonant MemoryRecovering Memory across a Longue Durée: methodology and book structure1: From History to Memory: The Discursive Legacies of the PastIntroductionLiverpool, ‘slaving capital of the world’From History to MemoryScouse Boasting, an Enterprising Sprit and The Competition‘The Glory and the Shame’Overcoming AbolitionThe Memorial Debate of Liverpool and SlaveryConclusion2. Black Liverpool: Living with the Legacy of the PastIntroductionExceptional Legacies: the Liverpool black presence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuryRacism, Riot and Resistance: living with the legacy of the pastGuerrilla Public History: Education and ActivismConclusion3. Coinciding Anniversaries: Birthdays and the Abolition Act in 1907, 1957 and 2007Introduction1907: Performing Civic Patriotism and Celebrating the Slave Trade1957: Racism, Decolonisation, and Abolition2007: Birthdays and BicentenariesConclusion4. The ‘Cult’ of William Roscoe: Remembering AbolitionIntroductionLiverpool and AbolitionThe Cult of William RoscoeConclusion5. The Rise of the MuseumsIntroductionThe Transatlantic Slavery GalleryThe International Slavery MuseumConclusion6. Performing Memory: Local slavery memory in a globalizing worldIntroductionWhose Apology? Local Apology, Global AudienceSlavery Remembrance DayConclusion7. Sites of Memory: Bodies and the CityscapeIntroductionBuying and Selling: Myth, Place, and LayeringGraves and GhostsBodies in StoneConclusionBibliographyPeriodicalsArchival MaterialPublished GuidebooksHistories of LiverpoolOther Primary Texts and SourcesSecondary WorksWebsites and Online Resources