id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt bc386h46s3f Bethany Montagano Sites of Slavery: Gender, Race and Tourism in America's Slavery Memory 1904 .txt text/plain 219 6 34 Investigating the lives, relationships and work of these women at the center of this story, provides a multi-dimensional view into the life cycle of a slave memory born from romantic fiction and tourism, charting its dangerous transition to history and into the American imagination. This dissertation argues that their ex-slave narratives have deep roots in cultural heritage tourism and romantic fiction, creating a distinct and problematic slavery legacy that because of its association with the WPA Slave Narrative Project, continues to play out in dangerous ways today. cache/bc386h46s3f.txt txt/bc386h46s3f.txt