Slavery, Contested Heritage And Thanatourism
Abstract
REVIEW BOOK REVIEWS SLAVERY, CONTESTED HERITAGE AND THANATOURISM edited by Graham M. S. Dann and A. V. Seaton (The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY, 2001, 221 pages) DOI: 10.1177/0047287502239795 Slavery, Contested Heritage and Thanatourism is a collection of nine scholarly articles that deal primarily with the connection between slavery and tourism (i.e., "slavery tourism" in different parts of the world, mainly Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom, and select Caribbean Islands). One of the main themes of the collection is the marketing of many artifacts and remnants of slavery for tourists to see and observe, and to purchase pictures or souvenirs of such. Some of these artifacts are former slave plantations (e.g., cotton, tobacco, banana, sugarcane, coffee, rice plantations); slave lodgings; old prisons for slaves; former slave pits; restored homes or mansions of former slave owners; a collection of shackles, chains, and whips; and pictures and paintings of all of the above. The editors, Dann and Seaton, are professors of tourism at the University of Luton in the United Kingdom. They are well-known authors of many books and articles in the field of tourism and appear to have coined the term thanatourism or used