Political Uses of the Past: Public Memory of Slavery and Colonialism Práticas da História: Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past Editors: Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University, United States Ynaê Lopes dos Santos, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Over the past thirty years, debates around the transatlantic slavery past and the European colonization of Africa and the Americas have found fertile ground in the public space of the United States, Brazil, France, Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, South Africa, Senegal, Nigeria, and Republic of Benin (Chivallon 2005, Chivallon 2012, Araujo 2014, Hourcade 2014, Fleming 2017, Moody 2020, Mattos 2020, Pachá…