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Putting the West's failure to recognize the most successful slave revolt ever sold alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debates within the Alamo and Christopher Columbus, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation about how power runs in the making and tracking of history. Provided here with a fresh foreword by renowned scholar Hazel V. Carby, Silencing the Former can be an indispensable evaluation of the silences in our historical narratives, of what's omitted and what's recorded, what's remembered and what's neglected, and what these silences show you about inequalities of ability.