Comparative Article On Slavery During The Monument Of...

Comparative Article Paper Slavery is a contentious topic for scholars. Authors of both two articles discussed in this paper focus on different issues related to slavery, while they get access to issues on slavery from various perspectives. On the one hand, Alderman examines the inscription in the monument of commemorating Africa slavery from a politics perspective. On the other hand, Lambert discusses the development of Atlantic slavery in the historical geographic areas. In this paper, I aim to focus on the different perspectives and approaches that these two authors hold on when they develop their argument on issues related to slavery. This paper is going to present how the two authors differ in three main aspects. First, they examine slavery from various locations and issues related slavery. In the article â€Å"Surrogation and the politics of remembering slavery in Savannah, Georgia (USA)†, Alderman mainly focuses on the political site of representing slavery in contempora ry America. There are debates over the inscription on the monument. Alderman analyzes the conflict on ways of remembering slavery in Savannah Georgia. Alderman states that the politics of engraving slavery on people’s mind should be inspected when in comes to surrogation and look for the appropriate monument for slavery (Alderman, 2010, p. 90). There is no doubt that geography can be related to politics in many ways. The politics might affect the history of geography. As Alderman mentions that Abigail