A primary port in the slave trade, the city of Savannah, Georgia, has but one public monument to slavery. As a text, therefore, Savannah's cityscape lacks a chapter on enslavement. The lone slavery monument's placement, content, and poetic inscription are the products of what was a bitter, decade-long fight over what to include and exclude, an editing process that activated competing interpretations about how and even whether to commemorate the city's participation in the trans-Atlantic slave economy. This article presents a case study on the ethics of remembering and how dominant authorities and marginalized groups, including Savannah's black community, negotiate even among themselves, for the social construction of local history, collective memory, and its visual representations.

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巨大的不和谐：萨凡纳对其被奴役的记忆（和遗忘）

作为奴隶贸易的主要港口，佐治亚州萨凡纳市只有一座奴隶制公共纪念碑。因此，作为文本，萨凡纳的城市景观缺乏关于奴役的章节。孤独的奴隶制纪念碑的位置、内容和诗意的铭文是长达十年的关于包含和排除什么的激烈斗争的产物，这个编辑过程引发了关于如何甚至是否纪念这座城市参与的竞争性解释。跨大西洋奴隶经济。本文介绍了一个关于记忆伦理的案例研究，以及主导当局和边缘化群体，包括萨凡纳的黑人社区，如何在他们之间进行协商，以促进当地历史、集体记忆及其视觉表现的社会建构。