Araujo on Public Memory of Slavery

August 12, 2010 in Ana Lucia Araujo
Tags: african diaspora, books, brazil, public history, scholarship

If recent scholarship has focused on the memory of slavery in the United States, few works have dealt with the public memory of slavery from a transnational perspective. When examining the role of the African Diaspora in the reconstructions of the slave past, most authors have limited their analysis to the African American community and [...]

Araujo (ed.) on History, Memory and the Slave Trade

February 13, 2010 in Alessandra Brivio, Ana Lucia Araujo, Carisa Worden, Charmaine Nelson, Christine Chivallon, Eduardo França Paiva, Humberto Garcia Muniz, Joshua M. Rosenthal, Leslie A. Schwalm, Margrit Prussat, Valika Smeulders
Tags: african diaspora, books, history, public history, scholarship

Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery, Ana Lucia Araujo, ed. (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2009), ISBN 13: 978-1-4438-0998-6, 301pp. Introduction The Slave Past in the Present Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University Chapter One “According To My Reckoning”: Remembering and Observing Slavery and Emancipation Leslie A. Schwalm, University of Iowa [...]

Paton on Enslaved Women and Slavery circa 1807 (and more)

June 12, 2009 in Ana Lucia Araujo, Christer Petley, Diana Paton, Graham Ullathorne, James Walvin, Marika Sherwood, Natalie Zacek, Pieter C. Emmer, Tim Lockley
Tags: abolition, african diaspora, articles, scholarship, toc

Posted at History in Focus, a 14 volume journal published by the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London.  [On the main page, the link to the issue on slavery is broken.  Access it here.] Excerpt below: This year’s commemorations of the 200th anniversary of the passage of the British Act for the [...]