Tracing Slavery

<p> Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while there is growing official attention to the country's slavery past (monuments festivals ritual occasions) many interlocutors showed little interest in the topic. Developing the notion of trace as a seminal notion to explore this paradox this book follows the issue of slavery in everyday realities and offers a fine-grained ethnography of how people refer to this past - often in almost unconscious ways - and weave it into their perceptions of present-day issues.</p>