What Do the Trodden Stones of the Wharf Have To Tell? Uses and Political Disputes of the Memory of Slavery and Transatlantic Trade

• Autor(a) principal: Cunha Paz, Francisco Phelipe
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Afro-Ásia (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/afroasia/article/view/44963
• topic: Cais do Valongo; Memórias da escravidão; Atores sociais negros; Valongo Wharf; Memories of slavery; Black social actors

Over the past thirty years there has been increasing interest in the memory of slavery and ways of expressing the past, including places of memory, museums, and cultural heritage. By accessing slavery’s past, groups and individuals build their own narratives about it and break with places that, historically, have erased, even silenced and marginalized Africa and the Black diaspora. Given this demand for recognizing the legacy of the memory of slavery, this paper raises questions about the Cais do Valongo archeological site, [which came to be recognized] as cultural heritage of humanity, as a result of the agency of Black social actorsin the Pequena África district. It also examines the political uses of the past by these contemporary actors in the struggle for identification, recognition, and reparation, as well as in the fight against racism.