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The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th
Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard alehouses to
Drawing on multi-disciplinary debates surrounding the cultural production of place, space and memory in the post-industrial city, this study explores the role o