En las últimas tres décadas esto ha cambiado a diferentes ritmos en las antiguas metrópolis. Keywords: Memory slave trade slavery European port towns Caribbeanĭurante mucho tiempo, la influencia de la esclavitud atlántica sobre sociedades europeas fue debatida en círculos académicos, pero no fue parte de historias nacionales, regionales y locales. This article focuses on sites of commemoration and silent traces of slavery. In Spain and Portugal the process to include the remembrance of slavery in local and national history is developing more slowly, as the impact of slave trade on Spanish and Portuguese urbanization and industrialization is little known, and the legacies of recent fascist dictatorships are not yet overcome. Museums and memorials were established, but they coexist with monuments to slave traders as benefactors of their town. The 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in France (1998) and the 200th anniversary of the prohibition of the slave trade in Great Britain (2007) opened the debates to the broader public. In the last three decades this has changed, at different rhythms in the former metropolises. For a long time, the impact of Atlantic slavery on European societies was discussed in academic circles, but it was no part of national, regional and local histories.
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