Slavery, Contested Heritage, and Thanatourism

Book excerpt: Articles collected here focus on British and American slavery in the New World and those instances where its remnants have been put to use by today's tourism industry. Specific subjects include slavery, heritage, and tourism in Ghana and Barbados, the marketing of memory through tourist souvenirs, the commodification of a slave-free antebellum South, and selling Alabama as heritage tourism. Some material originated at an April 2000 conference held at the College of Charleston. Dann is professor of tourism, and Seaton is professor of tourism behavior, at the University of Luton, UK. This work has been co-published simultaneously as International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Administration, v. 2, nos. 3/4, 2001. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR