Article
French
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Abstract
This article examines the debates fostered by the public memorialization of slavery and of the slave trade in the United States. After providing a typology of figurative representations of slavery in the public space, and the resistance it provokes, the article highlights how the memorial discourse on slavery seeks to promote interracial reconciliation. In so doing, the article interrogates the transformative power of such a compensatory approach that is motivated by a will to foster commemorative equality but ultimately refrains from any radical transformation of the memorial landscape.