Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2024

Cultural Heritage and Slavery

Perspectives from Europe

Edited by: Stephan Conermann , Claudia Rauhut , Ulrike Schmieder and Michael Zeuske

Volume 10 in the series Dependency and Slavery Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111331492

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In the recent cultural heritage boom, community-based and national identity projects are intertwined with interest in cultural tourism and sites of the memory of enslavement. Questions of historical guilt and present responsibility have become a source of social conflict, particularly in multicultural societies with an enslaving past. This became apparent in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, when statues of enslavers and colonizers were toppled, controversial debates about streets and places named after them re-ignited, and the European Union apologized for slavery after the racist murder of George Floyd. Related debates focus on museums, on artworks acquired unjustly in societies under colonial rule, the question of whether and how museums should narrate the hidden past of enslavement and colonialism, including their own colonial origins with respect to narratives about presumed European supremacy, and the need to establish new monuments for the enslaved, their resistance, and abolitionists of African descent.

In this volume, we address this dissonant cultural heritage in Europe, with a strong focus on the tangible remains of enslavement in the Atlantic space in the continent. This may concern, for instance, the residences of royal, noble, and bourgeois enslavers; charitable and cultural institutions, universities, banks, and insurance companies, financed by the traders and owners of enslaved Africans; merchants who dealt in sugar, coffee, and cotton; and the owners of factories who profited from exports to the African and Caribbean markets related to Atlantic slavery.

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Stephan Conermann; Michael Zeuske, Univ. Bonn, Germany; Ulrike Schmieder, Univ. Hannover, Germany; Claudia Rauhut, FU Berlin, Germany

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Stephan Conermann, Claudia Rauhut, Ulrike Schmieder and Michael Zeuske Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Dealing with Dissonant Cultural Heritage: Traces of Enslavers in European Cityscapes Ulrike Schmieder Open Access Download PDF	1
Black Survivors: Unfreedom and the Collapse of Slavery in British Jamaica. New Research at the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery Matthew J. Smith and Matthew Stallard Open Access Download PDF	85
Whose Heritage? Slavery, Country Houses, and the “Culture Wars” in England Katie Donington Open Access Download PDF	139
A Public Site to Embody the National Memory of Transatlantic Slavery: Provisional Analysis of a Mnemonic Disputatio in Contemporary France Abdoulaye Gueye Open Access Download PDF	167
The Cultural Heritage Dilemma of Afro-Dutch Youth Artwell Cain Open Access Download PDF	187
The Stamp of Slavery on Nineteenth-Century Spanish Urbanism Lizbeth J. Chaviano Pérez Open Access Download PDF	203
The Cultural Heritage of Slavery in the Nordic Countries Holger Weiss Open Access Download PDF	223
‘The First Global Players’: The Welsers of Augsburg in the Enslavement Trade and the City’s Memory Culture Julia Roth Open Access Download PDF	253
History and Public Debates about Racial Slavery in Denmark Gunvor Simonsen Open Access Download PDF	279
German Slavery and Its Legacies: On History, Activism, and a Black German Past Annika Bärwald and Sarah Lentz Open Access Download PDF	303
Notes on the Editors Open Access Download PDF	333
Notes on the Contributors Open Access Download PDF	335
Index Open Access Download PDF	339

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of literary studies, material culture, social sciences, and cultural anthropology, historians, archaeologists
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 344
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 36
- Coloured Tables: 21
Keywords: Postcolonialism; decolonialization; diversity

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Published: November 20, 2023
ISBN: 9783111331492

Hardcover

Published: November 20, 2023
ISBN: 9783111327785