This afterword engages with the theme of this Special Issue by discussing the significance of urban slavery in slave societies and societies where chattel slavery existed in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. It discusses how, despite the omnipresence of slavery in cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, New York, and Charleston, the tangible traces of the inhuman institution were gradually erased from the public space. It also emphasizes that, despite this annihilation, over the last three decades, black social actors have made significant interventions to make the slavery past of Atlantic cities visible again.

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后记：奴隶的幽灵

后记通过讨论城市奴隶制在奴隶社会以及欧洲、非洲和美洲存在动产奴隶制的社会中的重要性，与本期特刊的主题相结合。它讨论了尽管奴隶制在里约热内卢、萨尔瓦多、纽约和查尔斯顿等城市无处不在，但这种不人道制度的有形痕迹是如何逐渐从公共空间中抹去的。它还强调，尽管发生了这种毁灭，但在过去的三十年里，黑人社会行为者做出了重大干预，使大西洋城市的奴隶制过去再次可见。