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Part 1. Slavery And Slave Trade In National Narratives. Transnational Memory Of Slave Merchants: Making The Perpetrators Visible In The Public Space / Ana Lucia Araujo -- Reasons For Silence: Tracing The Legacy Of Internal Slavery And Slave Trade In Contemporary Gambia / Alice Bellagamba -- With Or Without Roots: Conflicting Memories Of Slavery And Indentured Labor In The Mauritian Public Space / Mathieu Claveyrolas -- Smoldering Memories And Burning Questions: The Politics Of Remembering Sally Bassett And Slavery In Bermuda / Quito Swan -- Making Slavery Visible (again): The Nineteenth-century Roots Of A Revisionist Recovery In New England / Margot Minardi -- Teaching And Commemorating Slavery And Abolition In France: From Organized Forgetfulness To Historical Debates / Nelly Schmidt -- Commemorating A Guilty Past: The Politics Of Memory In The French Former Slave Trade Cities / Renaud Hourcade -- The Challenge Of Memorializing Slavery In North Carolina: The Unsung Founders Memorial And The North Carolina Freedom Monument Project / René Ater -- Part 2. Slavery And Slave Trade In The Museum. Museums And Slavery In Britain: The Bicentenary Of 1807 / Geoffrey Cubitt -- Museums And Sensitive Histories: The International Slavery Museum / Richard Benjamin -- The Art Of Memory: São Paulo's Afrobrasil Museum / Kimberly Cleveland -- Afro-brazilian Heritage And Slavery In Rio De Janeiro Community Museums / Francine Saillant And Pedro Simonard -- Exhibiting Slavery At The New-york Historical Society / Kathleen Hulser -- Museums And The Story Of Slavery: The Challenge Of Language / Regina Faden. Edited By Ana Lucia Araujo. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 271-290) And Index.