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Abstract
This article investigates the cultural memory of the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. It examines official government responses and considers how these were replicated in popular culture, drawing on the film Amazing Grace. The study highlights the rhetoric employed to distance the past of the transatlantic slave trade from the present, thereby contributing to a process of historical erasure rather than tackling the lingering social and political affects of a traumatic past.
Notes
See the 1807 Commemorated Web Site. This site was established in 2007 and was authored, and is continually updated, by Laurajane Smith, Geoff Cubitt, Ross Wilson and Kalliopi Fouseki and reports on the AHRC funded project 1807 Commemorated. The web site is maintained and hosted by address is the Institute of Historic Research, London, and its address is: www.history.ac.uk/1807commemorated.
Quotes from official promotional advertisements for the film Amazing Grace (2007).