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      Caminhos atlânticos memória, patrimônio e representações da escravidão na Rota dos Escravos Translated title: Atlantic routes memory, heritage and slave representations on the Slave Route

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          O artigo examina as diferentes representações da escravidão e do tráfico atlântico presentes na Rota dos Escravos da cidade de Ajudá, na atual República do Benim. Busca-se entender como estas representações exprimem e reconstroem diferentes memórias do passado escravista atlântico. Tenta-se mostrar que a Rota dos Escravos é um lugar construído, onde se percebem duas imagens do escravo, a da vítima absoluta e a do resistente. O percurso proposto sugere dois níveis de leitura: de um lado, os monumentos constituem uma encenação, cujo objetivo é emocionar os descendentes da diáspora (principalmente os norteamericanos), que têm recursos financeiros para fazer turismo em países estrangeiros; de outro lado, as estátuas concebidas pelo artista Cyprien Tokoudagaba e os templos existentes na Rota dos Escravos posicionam o visitante no cruzamento de diferentes memórias e diferentes histórias da escravidão, onde a vitimização dá lugar à afirmação cultural que valoriza a arte, as religiões e as culturas africanas.

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          This paper examines the different representations of slavery and the slave trade found on the Slaves Route in Ouidah, present Republic of Benin. It aims at understanding how these representations express and reconstruct different memories of the Atlantic slave past. The paper shows that Ouidah's Slaves Route is a constructed space, where we can find two different images of enslaved Africans: the absolute victim and the resister. The proposed itinerary suggests two levels of interpretation: on the one hand, the monuments staging the past aim at emotionally move the diaspora (especially African Americans) who have the financial resources to travel abroad; on the other hand, the statues conceived by Cyprien Tokoudagaba and the existing vodun temples on the Slaves Route place the visitor at the crossing position between different memories and different histories of slavery, where victimization is replaced by cultural assertion, through the promotion of African art, religions, and cultures.

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                Varia Historia
                Varia hist.
                Pós-Graduação em História, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte )
                1982-4343
                June 2009
                : 25
                : 41
                : 129-148
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                [1 ] Howard University Frederick Douglass Hall
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                S0104-87752009000100007
                10.1590/S0104-87752009000100007
                e8de35c3-b34f-4d62-96cf-d53738502476

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                HISTORY

                General history
                memory,heritage,slavery,vodu,memória,patrimônio,escravidão
                General history
                memory, heritage, slavery, vodu, memória, patrimônio, escravidão

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