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Historic Williamsburg and the memorial limits of a theatre of colonial slavery

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posted on 2023-06-08, 22:25 authored by Marcus Wood
Using Historic Williamsburg as a focus the chapter considers the representation of African Americans within the American heritage industries. Based on extensive interviews with participants in Williamsburg's African American Historical Re-enactment Programmes the analysis reveals the censorship and repression of African Americans within the forms of history and memory sanctioned by American museums and historical sites connected to the memory of slavery. The chapter ends by speculating on the limits of slavery, memory and recoverability in the 21st century.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Page range

707-725

Pages

18.0

Book title

The Oxford Companion to the Georgian Theatre

Place of publication

Oxford

ISBN

9780199600304

Series

Oxford University Press Handbooks

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  • English Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Julia Swindells, David Francis Taylor

Legacy Posted Date

2015-09-07

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