Slave Sites on Display: Reflecting Slavery's Legacy Through Contemporary Flash Moments

by Helena Woodard

At Senegal's House of Slaves, Barack Obama's presidential visit renewed debate about authenticity, belonging, and the myth of return--not only for the president, but also for the slave fort itself. At the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York, up to ten thousand slave decedents lie buried beneath the area around Wall Street, which some of them helped to build and maintain. Their likely descendants, whose activism produced the monument...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496824172
• ISBN13: 9781496824172
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"