Set in Stone? Statues and Slavery in London
Set in Stone? Statues and Slavery in London
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一成不变的？
DOI：
10.1093/hwj/dbm032
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发表时间：
2007
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1
通讯作者：
Madge. Dresser
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作者：
Madge. Dresser
本文探讨了公共纪念碑在伦敦和他们的关系，奴隶制和废除，一个话题，吸引了显着很少的实证研究。它认为，在漫长的世纪，伦敦公共雕像所纪念的个人中有很大一部分与奴隶贸易或种植园奴隶制有着重要的联系，这些联系需要被挖掘出来，置于特定的背景中，并加以明确。它接着分析了那些明确纪念英国废奴主义者的公共雕像和纪念馆，发现它们的构思和执行方式通常有利于保守的自我庆祝和防御性的政治议程，这种议程一直将被奴役的非洲人的经历边缘化。然而，这些纪念碑后来的社会生活，它进一步争辩说，值得更密切的调查，因为它们的意义不是一成不变的，但可以根据上下文被颠覆和改造。作者2007由牛津大学出版社代表历史工作坊杂志出版，版权所有。
This article examines public monuments in London and their relationship to slavery and abolition, a topic that has attracted remarkably little empirical research. It argues that a significant proportion of the individuals commemorated by public statues in London during the long eighteenth century had important links with the slave-trade or plantation slavery and that these links need to be unearthed, contextualized and made explicit. It goes on to analyse those public statues and memorials which explicitly honour British abolitionists and finds that the way they are conceived and executed has generally favoured a conservatively self-congratulatory and defensive political agenda which has consistently marginalized the experience of enslaved Africans. However, the subsequent social lives of such monuments, it is further contended, merit closer investigation since their meaning is not set in stone but can be subverted and transformed according to context. © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of History Workshop Journal, all rights reserved.