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Though Ghanaians, Brazilians, Dominicans, and Afrodiasporic people in Britain may each inhabit ‘in the wake’ of slavery (Sharpe, 2016), we are interested in the particularities of these histories, how these ‘afterlives' (Hartman, 2001) of enslavement are made sense of, and how, guided by such diversity, slavery’s past can be (re)imagined and represented.
In Ghana, Brazil, Dominica and Britain, the team will interrogate the relationship between divergent histories and afterlives of slavery, and the social and political struggles around memories and narratives of slavery that continuously unsettle or return to this unsettled/unsettling past. The project attends to the significance of gender in shaping histories of enslavement and contemporary representations of the past. We also attend to histories of marronage or aquilombar, which afford divergent lens on the entanglement of pasts, presents and futures.
