Tag: Atlantic slave trade

Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain

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Akiko Tsuchiya and Aurélie Vialette (eds.) Albany: State University of New York Press, 2025. 320 pp. ISBN 9798855800845 (hardback) A review by Jo Labanyi, New York University As the editors of this volume note, Spain has been slow to recognize the human rights abuses, including slavery, resulting from its former empire, in part because of …

A Vibrant Place: The Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes

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Krystel Gualdé, Nantes History Museum All images: Memorial to the abolition of slavery, Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) © PHILIPPE PIRON /LVAN In Nantes, there is a place where silence speaks, where footsteps slow, caught by the weight of a long-buried history. A vibrant place, on the riverbank, where memory takes form: the Memorial to the Abolition of …