Description: The Persistence of Memory tells the history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in the world, from the end of the 18th century into the 21st century, revealing the persistence of slavery memory in Liverpool as an ongoing, contested debate.
Brief description: Jessica Moody is a Lecturer in Public History at University of Bristol
Review Quotes:
'An extremely thoughtful and illuminating book, based on meticulous research. As a contribution to our understanding of the legacy of slavery in Liverpool, this book will be regarded as a landmark study, offering a very clever and insightful meditation on history and memory that is bound to excite interest on both sides of the Atlantic.'
Professor John Oldfield, Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull