Christopher C. Fennell is Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an annual Visiting Professor of Law, University of Chicago, USA.

List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1. Introduction: Remaking Monuments and Memories; 2. Addressing Community Trauma through the Framework of Controversial Monuments and Monuments of Oppression; 3. Un-ringing the Bell: How to Silence Oppressive Monuments; 4. Landscapes of Slavery and Colonialism: Creating, Embracing, and Erasing the Past in The Gambia and Senegal; 5. Cherbourg Beyond the Seas: An Invisible Monument and the Colonial Past in a Former French Imperial Port City; 6. Place of Punishment or Monument? Colonial Pillories and the Memory of Slavery in Brazil; 7. Shipwrecks, the Middle Passage and Jim Crow: The Signatures of Systemic Racism and Injustice at Two Maritime Archaeological Sites; 8. Confronting the Lost Cause Memorialization in South Carolina; 9. Notice is Hereby Given: The Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland; 10. A Re-Vision of Confederate Monuments: The Art and Activism of John Sims; 11. Commemorating an American Genocide: Catherine's Town and the 1779 Sullivan Expedition against the Haudenosaunee; 12. Decolonizing Monument Making in Newark, New Jersey: The Harriet Tubman Memorial; Index.