On Failing to Make the Past Present
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Best, S.
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Article
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2012
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Duke University Press
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English
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A good deal of recent scholarship into the slave past proclaims that the pastβs political significance resides in its continuity with our present, finding both ethical moment and critical motivation in a recovery imperative that seeks to continue, reanimate, or complete the political projects of tho