This article develops a dual analysis of commemoration in Wales and Trinidad that extends outwards from a monument in the Welsh town of Carmarthen to Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton, the most senior officer to die at the battle of Waterloo and an aggressive imperialist who has since been accused of committing crimes against humanity in the name of the British Empire. Using torture and public executions to control the enslaved population of Trinidad during his term as military Governor of Trinidad between 1797 and 1803, Picton accumulated great personal wealth through ownership of slaves and plantations. The article seeks to extend emerging scholarly analysis of commemorative activism and, specifically, the application of memorial publics to a contemporary Caribbean context. Archival research on the history of the Picton monument from regional archives in Carmarthen and national archive collections in Aberystwyth is connected to data from contemporary interviews with activists and public officials in Wales and Trinidad and Tobago as well as detail from public surveys, audits, and policy reviews concerning commemoration in the public realm. Despite wavering public support since its first iteration in 1828, Carmarthen's Picton monument has endured to become an important social arena for reckoning with British colonial violence as demands for its removal in Wales has helped initiate Picton-related decolonising efforts in Trinidad and Tobago producing memorial publics that are variously confined and extended.

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在威尔士和特立尼达纪念皮克顿：殖民遗产和纪念公众的产生

本文对威尔士和特立尼达的纪念活动进行了双重分析，从威尔士卡马森镇的一座纪念碑一直延伸到托马斯·皮克顿中将爵士，他是滑铁卢战役中阵亡的最高级军官，也是一位侵略性的帝国主义者，此后一直被被指控以大英帝国的名义犯下反人类罪。皮克顿在 1797 年至 1803 年间担任特立尼达军事总督期间，通过酷刑和公开处决来控制特立尼达的奴隶人口，通过拥有奴隶和种植园积累了大量个人财富。本文旨在扩展对纪念活动的新兴学术分析，特别是纪念公众在当代加勒比背景下的应用。来自卡马森地区档案馆和阿伯里斯特威斯国家档案馆馆藏的皮克顿纪念碑历史档案研究与对威尔士和特立尼达和多巴哥活动人士和公职人员的当代访谈数据以及公共调查、审计和政策的详细信息相关联有关公共领域纪念活动的评论。尽管自 1828 年第一次修建以来，公众的支持一直摇摆不定，但卡马森的皮克顿纪念碑仍然成为了应对英国殖民暴力的重要社会舞台，因为威尔士要求拆除该纪念碑的要求帮助特立尼达和多巴哥发起了与皮克顿相关的非殖民化努力，建立了纪念公众受到不同程度的限制和扩展。