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Of all the multitude of challenges that historians confront when trying to make sense of a vanished past, perhaps the greatest is the imbalance in documentary evidence. The archive, as Saidiya Hartman and others have demonstrated, does not function as a neutral record keeper—indeed, that was never its intention.
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Jacoby, K. (2019). Afterword: On Moral Ecologies and Archival Absences. In: Griffin, C.J., Jones, R., Robertson, I.J.M. (eds) Moral Ecologies. Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06112-8_12
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