As part of her research in Brazil and Benin, Araujo (history, Howard U.) consulted archives, conducted interviews, visited monuments and museums, and attended religious and commemorative ceremonies. She strengthens the recent trend to incorporate the south into concepts of the Atlantic world, especially regarding slavery, but also notes the growing suspicion by many academics that the north and south were too different to conflate into a single phenomenon. Her topics are impacts of Atlantic slavery and the slave trade, plural memories of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, between Brazil and Dahomey, contested memories of the slave trade in southern Benin, Africa in Brazil, the legacy of Francisco Fľix de Souza, and forgetting and remembering the slave past. Annotation 2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
