"The book offers a wealth of information about Spain's involvement in slavery as well as about present-day Spanish attitudes towards it. Its structure?leading from stories of abuse to accounts of Black creativity?has been well thought out. The overall message is that much work remains to be done in Spain to produce public awareness of the country's slave-owning and slave-trading past." ? Observing Memories

"?Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain fills a significant gap in the academic debates on the legacies of slavery in the Spanish context, where memory policies have been scarce and fragmentary in relation to its neighboring countries. Without doubt, the work ? will become a bibliographical reference for those who are studying and confronting the economic, cultural and symbolic legacies of slavery, and the ways in which they have been reflected, hidden and questioned in different cultural artefacts, both inside and outside of Spain." ? HUELLAS

"Underpinned by meticulous archival sleuthing, this hard-hitting, landmark volume makes an exceptional contribution, in both depth and breadth. A number of the essays are, quite simply, stunning for their intellectual reach, historical questioning, and uncompromising engagement with our contemporary moment. Contributors not only expose the persistence of racial discrimination in our present day but also provide an indispensable foundation for re-assessing Spain's involvement in slavery in a number of locales, including London, Fernando Poo, and the Philippines. There is nothing like it on the subject." ? Christine Arkinstall, author of Women on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Century: Virtue, Patriotism, Citizenship