This article examines how memory is implicated in the constitution and representation of global modernity by examining various articles. The author's main argument concerns memory and not origins. Recurring assertions are challenged in the book "Memories of the Slave Trade" where the author describes that Africans felt no sense of moral obligation regarding the sale of slaves by tracing memories of the slave trade in communities of Temne language in Sierra Leone. Although the past of the slave trade is rarely evoked in explicit verbal accounts, it is frequently made vividly present in structures such as rogue spirits and the symbolism of divination procedures. Taking into account extensive fieldwork and archival exploration, the author further argues that memories of the slave trade shaped the experiences of colonialism and post-colonialism, as well as the country's ten years of rebel war. Therefore, money and goods, for example, are frequently linked to an invisible city of witches whose prosperity relies on the theft of human lives. These ritual and visionary memories have until now constituted imperceptible substances which form a prism through which past and present mutually configure each other. This non-fiction ethnography examines how memories of slavery still resonate within the personalities and societies of those living in territories largely influenced by the slave exchange of the 17-1800s. Therefore, the idea of ​​cultural memory is addressed. Rosalind Shaw has created a well-researched and careful exploration of divination by the Temne and Mende people of Sierra Leone, Africa. New standards for the study of memory are being established. It has been described that...... middle of paper ......Modernity and the slave trade in Sierra Leone", American Ethnologist, Vol. 24, no. 4 (November 1997), pp. 856-8762) John Thornton “Cannibals, Witches, and Slave Traders in the Atlantic World,” The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 60, no. 2 (April 2003), pp. 273-293) “White Cannibals, Black Martyrs: Fear, Depression, and Religious Faith as Causes of Suicide Among New Slaves” William D. Piersen The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 62, no. 2 (April 1977), pp. 147-159, published by: Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc.4) Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone, by Rosalind Shaw, University of Chicago Press , April 8, 2002.5) http://jadedreprobate.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/a-discussion-about-morality-and-culture-in-enomics/