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The ‘memories’ and legacies of slavery may haunt the descendants
of the once-enslaved Africans in the Americas and
in the European diaspora.Yet it was not until the last years
of the millennium that the former European slave-trading
nations began to publicly acknowledge this gruesome past
as part and parcel of their national history.The Netherlands
is a case in point. In 1999, the Dutch government pledged to
erect a monument in commemoration of slavery, comprising
not only some kind of concrete statue, but equally an institution
dedicated to the effort of raising national awareness of
slavery and its many legacies. Part of this initiative, Facing Up
to the Past: Perspectives on the Commemoration of Slavery from
Africa, the Americas and Europe offers refreshing insights in
the manifold ways in which the slave trade and slavery are
remembered and commemorated – or suppressed – as part
of the national identity in the three continents forever
connected by the legacies of this triangular trade.The book
reflects on the wider question of how a painful past is used – and sometimes misused – in contemporary national
ideologies and identity politics.
Gert Oostindie is the director of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology in Leiden, and holds a chair in Caribbean Studies at Utrecht University.
isbn 976 637 055 9
publishers Ian Randle Publishers
with Prince Claus Fund Library, 2002
paperback, 17 x 22 cm, 256 pages
22 colour and 29 b&w illustrations.
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